[BangPypers] What are you using for developing desktop GUIs?

Bibhas me at bibhas.in
Fri Sep 27 10:15:02 CEST 2013


Kivy is good for multiplatform. But at that time we had to ditch it because it requires OpenGL >= 2.0. That means computers with older graphics driver would have suffered. And we didn't have any way to solve that. 

The look and feel is kind of like AOSP ICS of Android. Looks different from the other options. 

Vinayak Hegde <vinayakh at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Dhananjay Nene
><dhananjay.nene at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> > +1 for Kivy (under active development). The same code runs
>unmodified on
>> > Linux, OSX, Windows, Android and iOS (ofcourse, if device in
>question
>> does
>> > not has for instance multi-touch support, then corresponding
>features
>> won't
>> > work; or work in some kind of fallback mode).
>> >
>> > Guido himself recommended Kivy (though he recommended it
>specifically for
>> > developing mobile apps in Python):
>> > https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/342145797770604545
>>
>> Is kivy comparably good enough for desktop based development as
>> desktop focused toolkits are?
>>
>
>Adding to that, are there any thoughts from people who have used kivy
>apps
>across OSes and devices ? Especially on interaction and look and feel
>as
>these are traditionally hard to get right across platforms.
>
>-- Vinayak
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