GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Mark Lawrence]

On 06/06/2010 16:31, rantingrick wrote:
> On Jun 5, 9:22 pm, ant<shi... at uklinux.net>  wrote:
>
>> I ask the group; should we try to create a new GUI for Python, with
>> the following
>> properties?:
>>
>> - Pythonic
>> - The default GUI (so it replaces Tkinter)
>> - It has the support of the majority of the Python community
>> - Simple and obvious to use for simple things
>> - Comprehensive, for complicated things
>> - Cross-platform
>> - Looks good (to be defined)
>> - As small as possible in its default form
>
> Yes i one hundred percent agree! The only problem is i am the only
> one! Good luck finding others to climb into this boat. From the
> beginning there has has been this really weird love-hate relationship
> with Tkinter in the Python community. I myself experience this
> emotional attachment every day as i wish for Tkinter to be more
> "pretty" and "feature-rich" whilst at the same time loving it's
> simplicity. Tkinter seems to be Python's whipping boy and nobody wants
> to whip another, so we are stuck in limbo with a lobotomy.
>
> Heres an idea though, why not expand Tkinter with some new really cool
> widgets...? Hmmm...? That TIX package is a real PITA and could use a
> re-write. Can you believe it took until py3.0 for Tkinter to get a
> combobox :-O! Yea i know! :'-(
>
Patches are welcome at any time.  I look forward to seeing your first 
contribution.

Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.