[BangPypers] What are you using for developing desktop GUIs?

Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.nene at gmail.com
Fri Sep 27 09:44:28 CEST 2013


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Amber Jain <i.amber.jain at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Bibhas <me at bibhas.in> wrote:
>
>> I used Kivy a year back. Not sure of it's state now. You could look into
>> it once.
>>
>>
> +1 for Kivy (under active development). The same code runs unmodified on
> Linux, OSX, Windows, Android and iOS (ofcourse, if device in question does
> not has for instance multi-touch support, then corresponding features won't
> work; or work in some kind of fallback mode).
>
> Guido himself recommended Kivy (though he recommended it specifically for
> developing mobile apps in Python):
> https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/342145797770604545

Is kivy comparably good enough for desktop based development as
desktop focused toolkits are?
>
>
>> Shabda Raaj <shabda at agiliq.com> wrote:
>> >I am building my first desktop app with Python and I would like to get
>> >recommendation on what toolkit to use.
>> >
>> >I am planning to use either PyGTK or PyQT.
>> >(Are there anything else I should consider.)
>> >
>> >I see a lot of outdated, unmaintained tutorials about these. I am
>> >looking
>> >for modern, opinionated tutorials/books about GUI programming for
>> >Python.
>>
>
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