What's the best GUI toolkit in Python,Tkinter,wxPython,QT,GTK?

[Scott Robinson]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:06:14 GMT, Dave Cook <davecook at nowhere.net>
wrote:

>On 2005-03-27, Tom <myata99 at tom.com> wrote:
>
>> 1) Portable to Windows, Unix-like platforms, and the Macintosh;
>> 2) Powerful, GUI is very beautiful ;
>> 3) Efficiency of development is high;
>>
>> What's the best, Tkinter, wxPython, QT, GTK or other?
>
>Don't forget Swing and SWT via Jython.  Of course that brings with it all
>the joys and sorrows of Java.
>
>GTK on the Mac (OS X) requires installing and running an X server (an X
>server is included on Apple's OS X install discs, but not installed by
>default; it can also be downloaded for free from Apple).  This may be enough
>of an annoyance to turn some users off.  I've had success with using GTK on
>win32, and it's very standard on Linux systems.
>
>I'm not sure what the status of QT on OS X is.
>
>Tkinter still seems viable for things that don't require a lot of complex
>controls. Also, it has a very powerful canvas widget.  However, it won't
>look very good on unix systems (no anti-aliasing, for one thing).
>
>If you don't need a lot of complex controls, you might consider the embedded
>webserver + browser route using CherryPy or Twisted.web + Nevow.
>
>wxPython seems to have the best cross-platform support among CPython
>toolkits, but it never seemed very Pythonic to me.  There's a higher-level
>package called wax that aims to remedy that.
>
>Dave Cook
PythonCard builds on wxPython (a subset, I believe) and includes a
graphic GUI builder.  The way it handles the wxPython objects seems
pretty pythonic to me, but I can't say I build pretty interface  with
it.  PythonCard seems to like to stick to basics, but also includes a
certain ability to get to the rest of wxPython (file/save/message
dialogs are pretty easy to include).

Note that my only other experience in building GUIs was with visual
basic, which seems to have spoiled me.  I tried wxPython and Tinker,
but could only really get PythonCard to work.

Scott Robinson