qt or gtk?

[Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes]

Sat, 16 Jun 2001 05:52:12 GMT in <slrn9ilsuv.kjk.sill at sill.silmarill.org>,
Rainy <sill at optonline.net> spake:
> I want to learn python gui programming in linux. I think tk looks too
> ugly, so

  You might want to take a second look at Tkinter.  The default
appearance is fairly bland, but it's easy to change that on an
application-wide basis...  See the screenshots for Umbra, my
Python/Tkinter RPG, for instance:
<http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/Umbra/>

> I narrowed down the choice to two main contenders, qt and gtk. Which of these
> has more complete and up-to-date python bindings? Are there other reasons
> to prefer one of these over another for python gui work?

  I like Tkinter for ease of programming - it's the simplest and most
pleasant GUI API I've ever used (and I've used X, GEM, OS/2 PM, and Java
AWT and Swing).  It's also well documented, both with Fred Lundh's
tutorial and John Grayson's really excellent book _Python and Tkinter
Programming_.

-- 
 <a href="http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/"> Mark Hughes </a>
"I will tell you things that will make you laugh and uncomfortable and really
fucking angry and that no one else is telling you.  What I won't do is bullshit
you.  I'm here for the same thing you are.  The Truth." -Transmetropolitan #39