Future standard GUI library

Wolfgang Keller feliphil at gmx.net
Wed May 22 09:40:44 EDT 2013


> >>>> Do you think tkinter is going to be the standard python built-in
> >>>> gui solution as long as python exists?
> >>>
> >>> AT the moment, there is nothing really comparable that is a
> >>> realistic candidate to replace tkinter.
> >>
> >> FLTK? (http://www.fltk.org/index.php)
> >
> > tkinter is the Python wrapper of the tk library, just as wxpython
> > is the python wrapper of the wx library. I do not see a py-fltk
> > wrapper.
> 
> It exists, but it's really old.
> 
> http://pyfltk.sourceforge.net/

And it's imho definitely not "native" (in terms of "look and feel") on
*any* operating system, not even on Linux.

In fact it's SGI's Irix Forms re-implemented, afaik.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang



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