up with PyGUI!

[Jorge Godoy]

Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> How it looks isn't the point of PyGUI. The point is what
> the API is like, and you can see that from reading the
> online docs.

I liked the API.  This is what led me to question how it looks.  When
I'm developing something that is going to be "visual" to my clients, I'm
interested on what I'm delivering them and how hard it is to achieve
that (how much code, how to tie things together, etc.).  But if the
appearance is not good, it is better to choose another toolkit that
might not have an API as good the the other one or to write something
curses based...  Appearance sells a lot, specially to Windows users.
Quality and clearity of code is important to us, developers, but if you
write ugly screens with beautiful code your product won't sell.

> There wouldn't be much to see in the screenshots anyway.
> On a Mac it looks like anything else does on a Mac, and
> on Linux or Windows it (currently) looks like anything
> else that uses Gtk.

I'm not familiar with the looks on Macs...  But I remember something of
it, from the last visit to a store that has some of these here
(I remember specially the design of the computers, the look of the
applications seemed very interesting, but KDE is approaching it very
fast, IMHO).  I really would like a lot if it was possible to write
non-GPL code with Qt (not that I'm against GPL software, but some
clients already give me problem with their software being written on
Python, imagine if I had to break too habits at once: closed
software with closed tools...). 

On the other hand, GTK 2 is much better than GTK 1.  They made a really
nice job.  I use it with wxPython and the results are very good.  But
then, I'm not a designer...  I may just compare with other languages and
other toolkit results. 

>> BTW, I got really interested on the tool used to draw the diagrams on
>> this page:
>> http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/
>>    version/Doc/ownership.html
>
> As far as I can remember, I drew them with Appleworks 6,
> printed them to PDF files, opened them with Preview and
> then saved them as jpegs. (Photoshop might also have been
> involved in there somewhere, I don't recall now.)

Too bad these aren't tools available on Linux or FreeBSD...  I really
liked the way they look :-)


Thanks for your attention and sorry for being such a PITA insisting on
the screenshots on your website.  I only do that because I liked the API
;-)


Be seeing you,
-- 
Godoy.     <godoy at ieee.org>