Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

[rantingrick]

On Jan 18, 7:09 am, Arndt Roger Schneider <arndt.ro... at addcom.de>
wrote:

> Summary wxWidgets:
> wxWidgets is large scale C++ library from the 20th century,
> solemnly dedicated toward desktop computers.
> wxWidgets originates from a time before templates
> were used in C++ and thus duplicates many of
> today's C++ features.
> wxWidgets is not suitable for a modern type
> GUI ad thus clearly not the toolkit/framework
> of the 21st century.


Alight i'll except that Rodger. Wx may be unusable for the mobile
market. And since the mobile market is exploding --and will continue
to explode-- then we need to consider this. However, does any GUI
library exist that can handle desktop, mobile, and accessibility and
do it all in a 21st century way? You slaughtered wx but failed to
provide any alternative, however i am listing to your advice contently
because it is very good advice. Read on...

We DO need to consider the mobile market in this decision. Maybe it is
time for us to actually get on the cutting edge of GUI's. Maybe we
should head an effort to create a REAL 21st century GUI that can
handle desktop, mobile, and accessibility, and do it all whilst
looking very sharp! Sure we rob from peter to pay paul. We will use
Tkinters awesome API and geometry managers, wxPythons feature
richness, and any other code we can steal to make this work!

Then we can "advertise" python as the best GUI language available. I
have nothing against seeing Python on more devices and this would no
doubt bring that dream into fruition. There is a huge hole in the
market at this very moment and we need to pounce on it like a hungry
tiger on wildebeest. Just think how wonderful it would be to switch
from mobile to desktop and still write beatiful Python code.