From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2003-12-08T23:34:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea: Linux PIM in Ruby

Hal Fulton wrote:

> I think it would be fun/informative to try to abstract away the
> GUI here... I've tried that two or three times before with
> mixed success.
>
> In other words, I'd create a layer that would never change, then
> create a mapping from that to Fox. (But nothing too fancy --
> just wrap some calls if possible, not create a new GUI system.)
>
> Then for example it would easy(-ier) to switch later from Fox
> to GTK or wxWin or whatever, or even make alternatives.

wouldn't it be smarter to have a core which knows nothing about GUI and 
then several GUI layers ontop of it?
you think application directing GUI. how about GUI directing 
application? seems cleaner to me, but then again..

emmanuel