On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 09:10, Phlip wrote:
> Next question - which desktop bonds to Ruby better - Ruby-Gtk, or Ruby-Qt? 
> Is there any such thing as the latter??

Desktop or gui toolkit?

I can't comment on Qt, but IMHO Ruby-GTK is pretty good. Almost the
entire API is covered (I'm working on wrapping the last couple widgets).
You don't suffer from the ugliness of "OOP in C" like you do with native
GTK+ (although I personally don't find that too bad) -- the API is
flexible, extensive and reasonably logical. GTK's signals map very
nicely onto Ruby's iterators. Ruby-GTK is fairly well tested and stable,
and is actively maintained.

I don't know what the status of Ruby-Qt is, so perhaps someone else can
comment on that.

IMHO, one of the advantages of GTK+ is the ease that you can write
language bindings for it.

Cheers,

Neil
Ruby-GNOME (& Ruby-GTK) maintainer

P.S. My desktop is GNOME 1.4 ;-)

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