Comments on: New Fantasdic version

By: Mathieu

Mathieu — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:03:20 +0000

Alexandre > It would be great but there’s little hope ruby can become an accepted language for the GNOME desktop. :-( This means that currently an application written in ruby cannot be distributed by default with GNOME, unlike Python! Anyway, gnome-dictionary is getting better and better thanks to the work of its maintainer Emmanuele Bassi. I think both applications have pros and cons so it should be up to the user to choose which application to use. I just wish Fantasdic were a little bit more well-known.

By: Alexandre Cavedon

Alexandre Cavedon — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:33:59 +0000

fantasdic will be new gnome-dictionary…
:)

By: Mathieu

Mathieu — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:09:01 +0000

Hey, thank you for your message! Yes, it should be possible to port Fantasdic to Maemo but as you said it is necessary to get ruby-gtk ported first. Hopefully, someone said on maemo-devel that he’s working on it.

I’ll be in Japan starting from December. I’ll stay at least one year and we’ll see what happens next :). I may stay longer if I can find a good position. I’ll be in Atsugi, Kanagawa-ken. This is halfway between Yokohama and Tokyo.

Yo tambien puedo hablar un poco español :)

By: biquillo

biquillo — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:13:12 +0000

Since this application is made using GTK, will you port it to maemo? I’ve took a look to the source code and I saw it is written in ruby.
I don’t know the actual status of ruby-gtk or ruby-hildon bindings but may be interesting :)

By the way, I am also going in 15 days to Japan! and I will stay there for a long time :)

Greetings from Spain!

PD: Je parle aussi un petit peux de français mais j’ai décidé d’écrire seulement en anglais pour des autres lecteurs.