From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-12-21T05:18:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7791] Re: GUIs for Rubies

John Shields writes:

# My thoughts on a "preferred" GUI for Ruby:
# 
# For me, it is really important for the toolkit that I use to create
# applications that look like a native application.  If I create an app I 
want
# it to look _exactly_ like a Windows app when compiled under windows and 
look
# _exactly_ like a GNOME/GTK+ app when compiled for that environment. 

Out of "Ruby/GUI marketing curiosity", why is that? Pure personal 
preference, non-negotiable customer demand, or what?

# From
# what I've seen of wxWindows, that appears to be true.  How true is this 
of
# other toolkits? (It didn't appear so for FOX or Tk)

Well, IIRC (but I didn't follow this very closely for very long), this was 
a big early issue with Java AWT and Swing stuff. 

# Also, I think its beneficial to have a toolkit with a large user base
# already.

What's your threshold of large? 

# That said, I'm also big on a toolkit/framework's elegance and simplicity 
of
# use. 
# 
# (I'm showing my naivety here, but...) 

... but this isn't comp.lang.perl.misc on a bad day, so you're probably 
safe. :-)

Conrad Schneiker
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