[Python-3000] Add a standard GUI system

Johan Dahlin jdahlin at async.com.br
Sat Apr 29 15:49:19 CEST 2006


Kay Schluehr wrote:
> Bill Janssen schrieb:
> 
>> I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, and here it is again.
>>
>> The biggest wart in Python 2, the one that forces me to use another
>> language, is the lack of a standard GUI.  By standard, I mean that
>> when you install Python on a system, the GUI toolkit is also
>> installed.
>>
>> I suggest that for Python 3K, we adopt Greg Ewing's PyGUI into the
>> standard library.  It's been around for years, works on every major
>> platform (using GTK+ for Windows and X11, and Cocoa for Mac OS X), is
>> Pythonic in flavor, and is aimed at eventual inclusion into the
>> standard library.
>>  
>>
> No one uses GTK+ on Windows.

Quite a few application does.

The most popular application is Bittorrent, which has used it for quite
some time. And Bittorrent is probably the most used python application.

Johan


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