GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Mark Lawrence]

On 07/06/2010 04:31, Carl Banks wrote:
> On Jun 5, 7:22 pm, ant<shi... at uklinux.net>  wrote:
>> I get the strong feeling that nobody is really happy with the state of
>> Python GUIs.
>> Tkinter is not widely liked, but is widely distributed. WxPython and
>> PyGtk are both
>> powerful, but quirky in different ways. PyQt is tied to one platform.
>> And there are
>> dozens more.
>>
>> Whether or not we like graphics programming, it's not going to go
>> away. I get the
>> uneasy feeling whenever I start a new project that there should be a
>> 'better' GUI
>> than the ones I currently use (WxPython and PyGtk).
>>
>> Fragmentation is our enemy. Our resources are being dissipated. Is it
>> not time to
>> start again? We have shown that it is possible to do the right thing,
>> by creating Python3.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> If so, what are the next steps?
>>
>> The Python SIG on GUIs closed years ago. Should that be revived?
>>
>> This is "A Modest Proposal" (J. Swift). In a sense, I am suggesting
>> that
>> we eat our own babies.
>>
>> But don't we owe it to the community?
>
> Speaking for myself, PySide has resolved this issue for me.  I used
> PyQt for some things but didn't want to use it for everything because
> of the license, but I'd be ok to use PySide for anything.  It's
> portable to the major systems and generally better (IMHO) than the
> other toolkits.
>
>
> Carl Banks

Carl,

Thanks for mentioning PySide, if I'd ever heard about it I'd forgotten.

To OP.

See the following link as to why you've got so many comments:)
http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/009/08/first_public_release_of_pyside_for_qt_and_maemo.htm

Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.