GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 04:16 -0700, ant wrote:
> Since I started this thread, I feel a sense of responsibility for it,
> in some bizarre way.
> Not to prolong its existence, which is clearly a troubling one for
> some, but to try to steer it towards some kind of consensus that will
> irritate the least number of people. Or better, that will gain some
> kind of support and momentum so that something happens.

The way to build "support and momentum" is to create a project, commit
some code, and demonstrate that it solves the proposed problem.  If it
does, and the problem is real, then it will get support.

> 5 I should stop pontificating, and write code. If it's better than the
> existing, people will use it and it will become the standard.

+1,  for whatever "standard" means.

> So I think comments like "the system doesn't work like that - nothing
> happens till code is working" miss the point.

No. that *is* the point.

> We are not talking about some vital but complex module or library here

Yes, you are.  A GUI toolkit is at least complex, inherently.  Doubly so
[exponentially so?] if you are talking about a cross-platform toolkit
that is in anyway "comprehensive".

> So, to summarise the summary: I reiterate my call. Somebody has to get
> Tkinter out of the distribution and replaced
> by something that - as a minimum - doesn't get slagged off by nearly
> everyone.
> It can't be me - I don't have the clout

You get "clout", whatever that means, by writing code.  This isn't the
senate, it is Open Source.
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