GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Mark Lawrence]

On 12/06/2010 14:44, lkcl wrote:
> On Jun 6, 10:49 pm, Kevin Walzer<k... at codebykevin.com>  wrote:
>>> - 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
>>
>> These goals are not all complementary. In fact, some of them, such as
>> "small" and "comprehensive," are mutually exclusive.
>
>   that's not quite true - you can create a simple core which is easily
> extensible with third party contributions to create more comprehensive
> widgets.
>
>   in the GWT arena, you have gwt-g3d, gwt-incubator, gwt-gchart and so
> on, all of which were created very easily thanks to the power of the
> underlying GWT core codebase, _none_ of which are actually included
> into GWT by default, _all_ of which can be installed by users and
> simply "imported" just like the core.
>
>   now s/GWT/pyjamas and you have the exact same thing, and all the
> satisfiable requirements are met.
>
>   l.

I'd just like to say thanks for opening up this thread. I've never yet 
written any GUI in Python, but should I need to do so this your comments 
and the responses will certainly stick in my mind.

Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.