Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

[Wolfgang Keller]

> >> No matter how cool it may seem to create simple GUIs manually or to
> >> write business letters using LaTeX: just try to persuade people to
> >> move from Word to LaTeX for business letters...
> >
> > Good example.
> >
> > I have done nearly exactly this* - but it was only possible thanks
> > to LyX.
> 
> > *I moved not from Wugh, but from other software to LyX/LaTeX for
> > all my document processing.
> But of course, you were only doing so because you had LyX available,
> which is the equivalent of an easy-to-use GUI builder.

No need to argue here. This was exactly my point. :-)

> So maybe I should be more precise: just try to persuade people to move
> from Word to *pure* LaTeX for business letters...

Nearly impossible. And this was exactly my point. Again, no need to
argue here. :-)

The success of LyX (and TeXmacs and BaKoMaTeX and Scientific Word...)
proves imho that the LaTeX community had missed to offer a
"syntax-hiding"-GUI with LaTeX some 20 years ago.

And the lack of success of Python so far to replace, in your
application case, Labview, or, in my application case, all those
proprietary 4GL IDEs/frameworks/GUI builders (just check the success
that Realbasic has) proves imho that the Python community has totally
missed to address the vast crowd of potential users who are domain
experts in other domains than software development.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang