Michael Neumann wrote:
> Great idea.
> IIRC, Andy/Dave worked on a window manager written in Ruby. Am I right?
> 
> But KDE and Gnome both come with a GUI toolkit, KDE/QT and GTK.
> Which one to choose?
> QT cannot be used under Windows, due to the license.
> Tk is to slow and ugly.
> GTK, Fltk, FOX?

QT is GPL now, so no license problems.

> Do you consider a framework for applications or "only" an application which
> shows a desktop with icons which runs programs.

Framework for applications, plus a core set of applications that get
things off the ground (open to discussion, of course).

Jon
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  Jonathan Aseltine     aseltine / cs.umass.edu     MAS, Umass, Amherst