Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

[Adam Skutt]

On Jan 18, 2:11 pm, rantingrick <rantingr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Adam now you are making sense. Everything you said here is true.

> This
> is why we must push for the OpenGUI standard.

Funny, I write considerable detail about why such a thing is a
pipedream and useless even if it came to fruition, and you somehow
believe I'm in support of such an absurd idea.  If you believe what I
said is true, then you cannot seriously support any sort of "OpenGUI"
standard, and I advise you to google that term before you use it
again.  Tell me, are you a political science major?

Heck, to be totally honest, I've never been 100% convinced that cross-
platform GUI APIs were even such a good idea.  I certainly use them,
but only in situations that are very simple or where I'm OK with
accepting the fact my application will not be truly a first-class
application[1][2].  Even minor differences in presentation can have
large ramifications on how applications should function and therefore
be written.

> The entropy in GUIs has
> exploded exponentially and rendered them all useless.

Only if you have no clue what you're talking about whatsoever.  You
perceive them as useless because you're apparently incapable of
understanding the simplest GUI precepts, nevermind APIs, which is why
you've gone from Pure Python GUI to wxWidgets to this OpenGUI bullshit
you're now espousing.  Desperately clinging to a position doesn't make
you look intelligent.

Plus, I'm not sure what entropy you're talking about, but I'm not
seeing it.  MS continues to innovate, Apple continues to innovate,
some portions of the Linux community do innovative things.  Though
most people just want to put something together and call it a day, and
the functionality provided by a lot of toolkits is beyond adequate for
that.

Adam

[1] Or solely on Linux where all of the "native" toolkits have cross-
platform support.
[2] To say nothing about the explosion of web "applications" in the
world today...