What GUI-lib to use

[Phil Hunt]

In article <37F1D710.47A82D23 at bibsyst.no>
           thomas at bibsyst.no "Thomas Weholt" writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I get the feeling Tk is the de facto standard for GUI-development in
> Python.

It is, IMO.

> I`ve looked at Gtk and KDE, but find Gtk the most appealing to
> use. Tk looks  - well, rather old. My main concern is that the gtk-lib
> is to premature to use for gui-development, that the libs. change too
> much and that it`s hard to keep projects backwards-compatible. This
> thoughts are based on "feelings", I`ve not dived into the code or coded
> any gui so far using any of them. I`ve just seen/had problems with
> installing programs using different gtk-versions, older not compatible
> with new ones and vica versa. KDE is an option, but I`d rather use Gtk
> for a number of reasons, most of which are based on personal taste
> rather than any technical aspects.
> 
> I want to develop GUIs to simple scripts fast, writing as little code as
> possible, but still making it understandable. Looked at GLADE. How does
> this work with Python? 

Glade produces XML output files that can be read by PyGtk. (At least,
that's the theory, I haven't tried it in practice).

> Could Tk get a more modern look perhaps and solve all our problems?
> 
> Any ideas, thoughts ??

Wouldn't it be nice if you could code the GUI once, in a simple, high-
level format, and then run it on Tk, Gtk and Qt without alteration?

That's one of the goals of my parrot project.


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