On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 15:55 -0700, ant wrote: > On Jun 6, 2:22 pm, ant <shi...@uklinux.net> wrote: > > I get the strong feeling that nobody is really happy with the state of > > Python GUIs. > <snip...> > What an interesting set of responses I got! > And - even more interesting - how few of them actually seem to think > there is a problem, let > alone make any attempt to move the situation forward. > I appreciate that there are proponents of many different GUIs. I am > asking that all step back > from their particular interests and - for example - try to see the > situation from the viewpoint of > - say - a Python newbie, or an organisation that is thinking of > switching from (example only!) Visual Basic.
Taking a step back ^H ... Hmmmm... yep, no issue here. > The result that our hypothetical new recruit has to make a choice for > the new, big project. Remember that > GUIs have hundreds (sometimes thousands) of classes, functions and > constants. Let alone idioms and design > patterns. Yes - this is the natural and *unavoidable* consequence of "comprehensive". "Those who do not reuse, are doomed to reinvent." And reinvention includes rediscovering the exact same problems. > That is what I meant by 'Our resources are being > dissipated'; the effort of learning, remembering > and relearning a workable subset of these is substantial. > So it would be good to be able to use One Right Way, not try several > (as I have - I will admit I didn't try PyQt; > GUI fatigue was setting in by then). This isn't a language issue; it is a tool-chain issue. Get a better IDE. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list