Ruby

[Corey Burger]

On Jan 23, 2008 12:54 PM, Richard Seguin <richard.seguin at transubuntu.ca> wrote:
> I was playing around with Ruby this morning (4am because I couldn't sleep) and I noticed how easy it was to create a gui (or at least the beginnings of one)...  My thought then automatically went to the applets on the Ubuntu toolbars... I wonder how hard it would be to create an application and have the ability to put it on the toolbar...

Panel applets are not the easiest to write. You could write an app
that puts stuff in the notification area, but that is pretty much an
abuse of that area.  Here is an old tutorial, but the panel has
changed all that much since then:
http://www.pygtk.org/articles/applets_arturogf/

As for programming language choice, I would go with python merely
because the ruby-gtk bindings are rarely installed by default (the
only ruby-gtk app I know of is the orphaned gnome-art) and there is a
lot of python experience in the GTK/GNOME communities, thus it is easy
to get help when/if things break.

Cheers,

Corey