From: Robert Warning <cleeker@...>
Date: 2002-08-23T06:25:28+09:00
Subject: Tk and Gtk

Okay this isn't exactly a ruby question, but in the near future I want 
to do a GUI aplication in ruby. Now  two obvious choices that come to 
mind are tk and gtk. To me tk looks a bit dated (graphics wise not 
functionally). For instance the new netscape browser look like it was 
done with Tk (probably valid since Aol owns netscape and they seem to 
love Tcl/Tk) and it looks kinda ugly. But it has pretty darned easy to 
learn a great deal about it because I looked in the Perl/Tk book by 
O'Reilly and it seems pretty straight forward translation from Perl to 
Ruby. But GTK looks more modern (again graphics wise) and apealling to 
the eye. Also the tutorial presented for Ruby/GTK is very helpfull. Plus 
I have had a bit of experience with PHP-GTK (not enough to do much 
usefull). My question is what are the major pros and cons of Tk and GTK. 
Sorry if that was a bit off the ruby topic but I didn't know where to ask.