gui toolkits: the real story? (Tkinter, PyGTK, etc.)

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On Oct 3, 1:39 pm, "Chris Mellon" <arka... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/3/07, Grant Edwards <gra... at visi.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2007-10-03, Chris Mellon <arka... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 10/2/07, Grant Edwards <gra... at visi.com> wrote:
> > >> On 2007-10-02, Chris Mellon <arka... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >> > PyGtk has poor cross platform support, a very large footprint (the
> > >> > largest of all these libraries)
>
> > >> It's larger than wxWidgets on top of Gtk?
>
> > > No, but it's larger than wx on top of the native API,
>
> > A moot point for X11.
>
> wxWidgets actually does have a raw X11 implementation,

Wait though. If I want to use wxPython, my python code calls wxWidgets
code which calls gtk. So, it would seem simpler to remove 1 layer and
just call the gtk code directly via PyGTK.

>
> > > so when you average it across all platforms it's quite a bit
> > > larger.
>
> > I guess that's one of the costs of portability.
>
> Eh? The point is that wxWidgets, the more portable toolkit, is
> *smaller* than Gtk. It's not really related to portability as much as
> design considerations.

Isn't wxWidgets smaller that GTK+ simply because it's a wrapper and
doesn't do its own drawing?