[summerofcode] Project proposal:

[Ian Bicking]

Patrick Mullen wrote:
>    Hello fellow pythonistas!  This seems like a great program that will 
> hopefully infuse new life into a lot of the open source community, and 
> it's wonderful that python is getting involved.  At first I thought that 
> I could only choose off of the idea list on the wiki, in which case the 
> project I was going to go for would be the anygui one.  While wxPython 
> is now mostly considered the de facto standard, it seems a little big to 
> be included as the standard gui for python.  I would like to see a nice, 
> featured, light, gui to replace tk, which is pretty shabby in my 
> opinion.  But that's quite a large undertaking.  I would want to make it 
> expandable, so that the same code can be used without installing an 
> external toolkit, and then when you install gtk or wx it could use 
> that.  For the summer of code I think getting a reference implementation 
> using sdl/opengl would be good. 

FYI, PyUI is a toolkit built on pygame: http://pyui.sourceforge.net/ -- 
I don't think it's been developed very actively for a while though.

I put up the Anygui item, because personally I think it would be really 
really nice to have.  None of the native libraries (wxPython, pyGTK, 
etc) are very Pythonic.  And I don't really blame them, because it's 
best to honestly represent the underlying library, but I feel like 
something is sorely lacking that there aren't better libraries on top of 
those.  Wax is a notable exception, but there should be more competition 
for this sort of thing.  And personally I think wxWidgets is 
implementing the abstraction layer in the wrong place on the stack, 
which is why Anygui seems appealing to me.

*But*, I don't do much GUI programming, this is just my impression from 
a once-a-year foray into writing a GUI app.  So I don't really know what 
I'm talking about ;)

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Ian Bicking  /  ianb at colorstudy.com  / http://blog.ianbicking.org