[Python-3000] Requirements for a standard GUI library

[Greg Ewing]

Travis E. Oliphant wrote:
> The only thing I would wish different is to get rid of the PyGTK 
> dependency.   I think PyGUI should be a wrapper directly on top of GNOME

Perhaps you have Gnome and Gtk confused? Gnome is the
desktop, Gtk is the UI library that Gnome applications
use.

> In short, I don't like the chaining effect of wrapper on top of wrapper.
>  I want to make the connection to platform libraries as simple as 
> possible.

So do I, but I'm concentrating on getting the API right
first. Optimisations such as reducing the number of wrapper
layers can come later.

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