Forum: Ruby-Gnome 2 rg3 / girffi

Hi,

Wondering what are views of people interested/using rg2 about the
future (gtk3)? What do you think about girffi or a potential rg3?

Thanks

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Guillaume Cottenceau

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 14:37, Guillaume Cottenceau <gcottenc@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Wondering what are views of people interested/using rg2 about the
> future (gtk3)? What do you think about girffi or a potential rg3?

I would love to see gir being used.  It would probably affect our API
quite a bit, however, and I guess we need manpower for such a
conversion.

Many of the type-conversion functions are in place, so that part
should be easy to transplant.

There is already a gir effort for ruby gtk/gnome :

https://github.com/mvz/ruby-gir-ffi

I thought some devs knew it already, but I'm not sure now.

I didn't try it, but it seems very barebone and C'ish. It would not be 
too hard imo to make it behave much like rg2.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 14:59, Simon Arnaud
<ruby-forum-incoming@andreas-s.net> wrote:
> There is already a gir effort for ruby gtk/gnome :
>
> https://github.com/mvz/ruby-gir-ffi
>
> I thought some devs knew it already, but I'm not sure now.
>
> I didn't try it, but it seems very barebone and C'ish. It would not be
> too hard imo to make it behave much like rg2.

I know about it and yes, it’s very must like programming C in Ruby.
We can surely learn something from it, but as far as I’ve seen there’s
not much we can use.

What I love so far in GTK3 is that you can embed GTK apps in a browser.

I am using firefox a LOT, since many years by now.

There is now even an online IDE available in the browser:

  http://www.wiode.com/

It would be ABSOLUTELY AWESOME if my ruby-gtk apps could be put into a 
tab in firefox :)

For instance, I wrote a small ruby-gtk wrapper around FTP, and it works 
ok so far. If I could embed it into firefox, actually, I could stop 
using a javascript-based FTP client (cute FTP or something is its name, 
it is an add-on for firefox)