[FAQ] "Best" GUI toolkit for python

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Il 18/10/2016 03:25, Paul Rubin ha scritto:
> If you're just getting started and you're not trying to make something
> super slick, I'd suggest Tkinter.  It's easy to learn and use, you can
> bang stuff together with it pretty fast, it's included with various
> Python distributions so you avoid download/installation hassles, and
> it's pretty portable across various desktop OS's (not mobile for some
> reason).

Is there a visual GUI builder for Tkinter?  What I like about gtk/glade 
is a good separation between the code of graphical elements and the code 
of funcionality/behaviour (somewhat similar to CSS).  The widgets are 
designed and customized with Glade application that generates a xml 
(.glade) file that can be supplied directly to the python script.
In theory, it is very clean and simple.

So I'd like to have a visual GUI builder.  I have many problems to 
imagine the GUI in my mind when writing code.


> The downside is that you get industrial-looking UI's that
> implement typical GUI functionality but don't have ultra precise control
> or carefully crafted widgets like some of the other toolkits do.

Could you explain better what do you mean with "industrial-looking UI"? 
What can I do and what *can't* I do with Tkinter?


> Kivy (kivy.org) also seems worth looking at if you're trying to be
> cross-platform.  It runs on both desktop and mobile.

It seems nice.  Does it use the native look&feel on Windows?



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> Although, one of
> my mobile-using buddies tells me that mobile apps are now passé and
> these days people just write web apps for mobile.

I'm not sure this sentence is correct.  *Big* services (mainly social, 
facebook, linkedin, ...) have a custom mobile app for Android and iOS. 
They also have a website (I can check my Facebook profile through a 
simple web browser or through the related app), but they insist to 
install an app.

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