New UI Toolkit

[Gerdus van Zyl]

Hi

I am halfway to a first release of a new GUI library for python. It
will be cross platform and follows the Swing philosophy of user
experience and interface fidelity above "but it doesn't look like
windows!" (aside: neither does office 2007 or windowsmediaplayer).

The library is built on top of CairoGraphics (cairographics.org) and
currently has a rather stable backend for Win32 and experimental
backends for GTK,Pyglet,pygame.

I am also busy with an WYSIWYG designer ala visualstudio but have yet
to decide on an serializable format leaning towards xul-alike without
XBL.

You can see a screenshot here: http://infireal.com/external/gradripper.png
and a executable of a utility built using here: http://www.infireal.com/alpha
(generates cairo/svg gradients from images)

Please reply and let your thoughts be known. Is there a need for a new
GUI library for python?