[Python-Dev] What to choose to replace Tkinter?

[David Ascher]

> Back in my former life, when I was still worrying about Windows, the
> company I worked for bought into a commerical x-platform GUI toolkit
> called Galaxy (I mentioned this earlier).  Galaxy re-implemented all
> the native widgets, kind of like XPFE does.  One issue with this was
> that MS seemed to change something about the widgets in every release
> - e.g. the Galaxy filechooser looked like Windows 3.1, then Win95 came
> out and Galaxy had to play catch-up.  Once Galaxy had the Win95 LAF,
> Win98 came out.  Now I hear there's something called Windows ME.  Have
> they changed the look-and-feel again?  Seems to me like all the
> widget-reimplementors are doomed to playing eternal catch-up.

Back in a former life of _mine_, I was one of two people who understood
the architecture of Neuron Data's Open Interface Toolkit.  It used the
same strategy.  Not sure what that has to do with Python, though it was
a very fun project.  It was also fun to turn on the Mac 'theme' on a
Decwindows box (we're talking 1989 or so =).

The funniest story about that job involves Cray and black and white
monitors, but that's a story for another time, another place.

--da