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

[Sriram Karra]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:19 AM, 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 always write them as webapps - and ship them with embedded tornado web
server. You can strip it down to bare minimum, or choose lighter weight
'frameworks' if you wish. There are plenty of advantages to this general
approach:

a) your app will look the same across all your platforms (at least the best
it can be) as the front end is html/css/js

b) you don't have to learn a new widget library

c) your are building reusable code and skills that you can carry across
even programming languages. If you use mustache templates, for e.g., you
can even reuse the templates wholesale in other projects written in ruby,
for e.g.