[Python-ideas] tkinter: time for round buttons?

Barry barry at barrys-emacs.org
Wed Jan 16 16:24:38 EST 2019



> On 16 Jan 2019, at 20:32, Christopher Barker <pythonchb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 2:07 PM Barry Scott <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
> 
>> aesthetic level go up a bit more
>>> 
> tkinter is a wrapper around TK -- so it's TK that would need to "modernize" 
>>> poor me, if only py had some really nice native gu
>> 	pip install PyQy5
> 
> or pip install wxpython

I used to use wxPython, but it bugs and platform specific quirky drove me to port to PyQt and I have not regreted that decision.

> 
> native support to Windows, OS-X, *nix/GTK
> 
> The install story is SO much better now that the "built in" advantage of tkinter is no longer such a big deal.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> -- 
> Christopher Barker, PhD
> 
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