# Re: Yahoo! Widgets (JavaScript) - do we have a anything like

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**Created:** [February 10, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-yahoo-widgets-javascript-do-we-have-a-anything-like/65384 "2006-02-10T14:37:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-yahoo-widgets-javascript-do-we-have-a-anything-like/65384/1 "2006-02-10T14:37:46Z")

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Hmmm,

so what’s your conclusion from this debate? Fox isn’t pretty, Qt and GTK  
are  
better, but David is running away from it seeking shelter from  
non-Rubyish  
syntax…

What’s your answer to Glenn’s original question, then ?

a.) We got something like Yahoo Widgets in Ruby, namely …, and  
everybody finds it nice.  
b.) No we don’t, and we need Glenn to write it (since he commited the  
crime of uncovering a Ruby imperfection).

Best regards,

Axel

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**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-yahoo-widgets-javascript-do-we-have-a-anything-like/65384/2 "2006-02-10T15:02:55Z")

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DÅ?a Piatok 10 Február 2006 14:37 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid napísal:

> Hmmm,
> 
> so what’s your conclusion from this debate? Fox isn’t pretty, Qt and GTK  
> are better, but David is running away from it seeking shelter from  
> non-Rubyish syntax…

I’m not quite running away, since I don’t do GUIs, and as it seems,  
things are  
looking up even there.

> What’s your answer to Glenn’s original question, then ?

Heh, I’m afraid this thread has gotten VERY sidetracked. But:

> a.) We got something like Yahoo Widgets in Ruby, namely …, and  
> everybody finds it nice.

To summarize the actual on-topic posts: You can hack around with  
borderless  
transparent windows with FOX if you need cross-platform, and later  
googling  
has shown you can indeed implement gDesklets and Kicker applets in Ruby  
if  
you can offer cross-platform for the advantages using KDE and GNOME  
standard  
desktop applet functionality.

Maybe we could also try giving the SuperKaramba team some hints to  
provide  
Ruby bindings if they have Python ones already. I haven’t done much  
SWIG, but  
I can’t imagine how the languages are different in the aspects that are  
involved in autogenerating bindings.

Anyways, cheers for bringing this back into reality.

David V.