gui toolkits: the real story? (Tkinter, PyGTK, etc.)

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-10-03, Chris Mellon <arkanes at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/2/07, bramble <cadet.bramble at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 2, 11:07 am, "Chris Mellon" <arka... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > PyGtk has poor cross platform support, a very large footprint (the
>> > largest of all these libraries) as well as a complicated runtime
>> > environment.
>>
>> What's complicated about it?
>>
>
> There's an enormous amount of dependencies and runtime configuration,
> such as finding theme engines and handling preferences. There's
> solutions for managing all of that of course, but it's still much more
> overhead than dirt-simple Tk.

You've got to admit that Tk "just works", although as a result
it looks ugly and foreign on all platforms.

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