GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Mark Roseman]

I'll venture to say that the path of least resistance (which includes 
little or modest development effort) would be for Python to retain 
Tkinter in the way it does now, but have Tkinter GUI's magically appear 
less horrid.

Guess what?  That's already happened.  Newer versions of Tk (which 
Tkinter uses internally of course) do look much better.

But, there are a few small API changes you'd need to make to Tkinter 
programs to see that improvement.

You can find these changes and improvements talked about at 
http://www.tkdocs.com

I can pretty much guarantee that continuing to share information about 
these new things in Tkinter, and keeping up with modern versions of Tk, 
is a whole lot less work than the massive engineering efforts people are 
talking about as alternatives.

(Not to say the end results, if they were ever completed, wouldn't be 
better going a different way...)

Mark