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Tero Koskinen:

> My idea of open source Ada projects targeted for end users was that
> they could "force" more Ada stuff into distributions and make Ada
> more popular in that way. For example, a decent GtkAda application
> could attract users who would then demand the application and the GtkAda
> library to be bundled with their favourite Linux distribution.

It is exactly what someone wrote me one week ago when discussing about a Linux, 
and more broadly, a Gtk hull for TeXCAD

   http://sourceforge.net/projects/texcad/

Up to now, there is only a native Windows hull, but the core of that software 
uses only the Ada.* library; this includes a generic display of pictures and the 
capturing of items with a mouse.
If someone is tempted by making a Gtk hull...
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