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

[Nick Stinemates]

You make it very hard for me to take what you say seriously. I lurk on this
list and I have created a filter where emails from you go in to Spam.

Good luck.

Nick

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:23 PM, rantingrick <rantingrick at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 18, 2:37 pm, Adam Skutt <ask... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 18, 2:11 pm, rantingrick <rantingr... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > The entropy in GUIs has
> > > exploded exponentially and rendered them all useless.
> >
> > Only if you have no clue what you're talking about whatsoever.  You
> > perceive them as useless because you're apparently incapable of
> > understanding the simplest GUI precepts, nevermind APIs, which is why
> > you've gone from Pure Python GUI to wxWidgets to this OpenGUI bullshit
> > you're now espousing.  Desperately clinging to a position doesn't make
> > you look intelligent.
> >
> > Plus, I'm not sure what entropy you're talking about, but I'm not
> > seeing it.  MS continues to innovate, Apple continues to innovate,
> > some portions of the Linux community do innovative things.  Though
> > most people just want to put something together and call it a day, and
> > the functionality provided by a lot of toolkits is beyond adequate for
> > that.
>
>
> Adam, i am speaking specifically about how multiplicity is ruining
> everything. The multiplicity is "entropy incarnate".  And selfishness
> is the heathen prodigy of multiplicity.  What we have today is a zig
> saw puzzle of GUI libraries. Not one of them can solve all the GUI
> problems we have before us because of selfishness and lack of true
> cooperation between the diverse parties. And to add insult to injury
> none of the pieces where ever made so that they could mate correctly.
> We have been the victims of you own selfishness and vanity begotten
> directly from our fostering of multiplicity. Once you understand what
> i am talking about, you will see how it applies to almost every system
> we humans have ever created. And more disturbingly, how difficult it
> will be to undo this backward facing inertia we have set in motion.
> Years, decades, centuries have been lost due to nothing more than
> selfishness. When will we see the light?
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