UI toolkits for Python

[Mark Roseman]

 Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> However, Tkinter not most people's favorite, because the widgets look
> crude, they don't resemble the native widgets of any popular platform,
> and the widget set is somewhat limited.


People should probably be more aware of work that has been going on with 
Tk recently (after a fairly long hiatus) in terms of greatly improving 
its appearance, adding theming, and more.  It's worth checking out, and 
of course, if there's a way to help get some of these changes into 
Tkinter, the Tk folks would I'm sure be helpful. 

Here's a portion of a note that Jeff Hobbs posted to the Ruby group 
recently, on a similar topic:


> From: Jeff Hobbs <jeffh at removethis.activestate.com>
> Subject: Re: The definitive GUI for Ruby
> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:02:46 -0700
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Message-ID: <43441546.2040307 at removethis.activestate.com>
>
> Eustaquio Rangel de Oliveira J wrote:
> > Tk is still too ugly for make programmers that are
> > migrating. :-)
>
> Tk is only ugly if that's the way you like it.  You have a
> full set of themed widgets available now that give you
> native look and feel, with all the same dynamic control and
> general ease of use that Tk has always provided.  All this
> on Aqua, Win32 and X11 (even Windows/CE).  Some screenshots
> of Tk apps that try not to be ugly:
>
> The Perl Dev Kit and Tcl Dev Kit UIs:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/PDK/6.0/PerlApp_gui.html#perlapp_gui_configuring_perlapp_build_parameters
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/Tcl_Dev_Kit/3.2/TclVFSE.html
>
> Tk on Win/CE (I know that the Perl/Tcl::Tk use this too):
> http://wiki.tcl.tk/8442
>
> Coccinella:
> http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/
> http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/examples/index.html
>
> An installer builder:
> http://installbase.sourceforge.net/screenshots.shtml
>
> An example of improving a Tk app by "going native":
> http://wiki.tcl.tk/14522