qt or gtk?

[Bruce Wolk]

I would like to put my two-cents in for Qt.  As a newbie to gui I tried gtk and
found it a little cryptic and cumbersome.  Then I got PyQt and was blown away by
how crisp and simple the coding is.  The Qt documentation is really excellent.  For
rapid gui development you can use Qt Designer, which operates pretty much like
glade.

D-Man wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 05:52:12AM +0000, Rainy wrote:
> |
> | I want to learn python gui programming in linux. I think tk looks too ugly, so
> | I narrowed down the choice to two main contenders, qt and gtk. Which of these
> | has more complete and up-to-date python bindings? Are there other reasons
> | to prefer one of these over another for python gui work?
>
> Personally I like GTK better.  I don't like the way Qt tries to look
> like MS Windows.  Glade+libglade make a great combination for rapid
> coding.  Use glade (a gui) to build the static parts of the interface,
> then load them at runtime with libglade.  You simply write the event
> handlers and connect them to the events in your code.  You can
> completely change the look of the UI without changing any code as long
> as the names of widgets and their type match (ie you don't change from
> a tree to a list).
>
> wxWindows and wxPython look nice, though I haven't worked with them
> enough to know if I like the style of the interface.
>
> -D

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Bruce Wolk