From: MrZombie <mrzombie@...>
Date: 2010-07-21T00:51:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Shoes tray icon?

One of my main concerns as a programmer is to not reinvent the wheel, so
I always search before I code. I'll have to look at the other libraries 
used by Shoes,
but there already is a couple of libs to bind global hotkeys with GTK, 
I'm guessing
the same is true for the rest.

I'm guessing a possible approach would be a small abstraction layer built on
license-compatible libraries that can bind global hotkeys, and make 
sure the right
library is loaded depending on the underlying OS or something...

Duck typing ftw.

On 2010-07-20 11:23:00 -0400, Steve Klabnik said:

> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
> 
> Hm. I know that nothing like that is built-in, but that would also be pretty
> useful...
> 
> Shoes itself is a combination of its own private Ruby 1.9.1 with a bunch of
> libraries (including gtk). So, if you can do it with gtk, I don't see how it
> wouldn't be _possible_ with shoes, but nothing like that is built-in yet.
> 
> If you end up writing either of these approaches into a non-Shoes version of
> your app, I'd love to talk about folding them into Shoes.


-- 
Thank you for your brain.
-MrZombie