yep, i see this as one of the weakest parts and one of the ways to boost perl usage.. I havent seen many standalone-graphic apps written in perl even that there is ports of gtk,qt,wxWindows or so...
Probably 'cause of the lack of integrated IDE similar like Delphi/Kylix ...
probably adding some primitives directly available into parrot can boost the thing a bit.. dont understand these things so that just mumbling :")