What GUI toolkit looks the best?

[Brian Kelley]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Probably the reason the text widget doesn't already do those things is
> that nobody has taken the time to make it happen *and* release the changes
> back to the project.  Is Robin Dunn supposed to think of and write all
> these things himself, just for your benefit?

That's a bit rough considering I give back quite a bit to the wxPython 
community.  Most of the useful things that I have written I have given 
back to wxPython.  A short resume includes PyGTK/Glade tutorial and Dr. 
Dobbs article, WizardTransitionPages, grid_MegaExample, etc.  Some made 
it into the distribution, some didn't.

I don't even know if this is a sane interface.  When I said "why isn't 
there a .write(...) method for these widgets?  Why can't I use a text 
widget like<a file stream>" that wasn't a specious Robin should do this 
for me question.  It really was more like, is this a way a text widget 
should behave?

I also wan't just talking about wxPython, non-pythonic behavior exists 
across the board wxPython/Tk/Qt/Gtk.  Is it worth the effort to make a 
text widget behave like a file stream, I'm not sure.  I'm certainly not 
going to force this down someone's throat, but when I'm happy with it 
I'll release it.

Andrew Dalke wrote a good piece in the Dr. Dobb's 25th anniversary 
article about the pythonification of C toolkits that I think is pretty 
good reference for these types of discussions.

Brian