Fast text display?

[Christopher Subich]

Paul Rubin wrote:

> No, it's a big pain.  I'm a big boy and gave up on trying to install
> wxpython for bittorrent on FC3 (the problem was with wxwidgets needing
> an obsolete version of gtk, not with wxpython itself).  There's just
> no compelling reason to want to deal with this stuff.  Tkinter has its
> warts but it allows making functional gui's without all that much
> fuss.  If it were replaced in the default distro then I'd say use
> whatever the new default is, but as it is, it's best to not impose
> unnecessary extra headache on users.

Fair enough.  At the moment, the expected user base for the program is 
exactly one, but making it easy has its advantages.  Since you've 
obviously used it yourself, if I end up going with tkinter, are there 
any performance gotchas on text rendering that I should be aware of?