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 C.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 14:37, Guillaume C. [email protected]
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 :
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.
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:
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)
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 14:59, Simon A.
[email protected] wrote:
There is already a gir effort for ruby gtk/gnome :
GitHub - mvz/gir_ffi: Auto-generate bindings for GObject based libraries at run time using 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.