> The GUI must be small, pythonic, and cross platform. And how many times have I heard that? I develop GUIs... good luck. Come back in ten years when you have some working code.
> Tkinter is aimed at the newbie and i would think that was Guido's > original vision. And it's not the worst GUI by far. But we need to fix > it, or abandon it. Or just use a different one. Simple enough. > > 5 I should stop pontificating, and write code. If it's better than the > > existing, people will use it and it will > > become the standard. > Writing code guarantee's NOTHING! NOT writing code does guarantee NOTHING!! > That is the whole point of threads > like this one. First do research and then write code. Not the other > way round lest you have time to waste. > > So I think comments like "the system doesn't work like that - nothing > > happens till code is working" miss the point. > Exactly! see my last answer. A point cannot miss itself, that doesn't make sense. "code is working" *is* the point, the whole point, and there is no other point. > > So, to summarise the summary: I reiterate my call. Somebody has to get > > Tkinter out of the distribution and replaced Or not, whatever. > > by something that - as a minimum - doesn't get slagged off by nearly > > everyone. > > It can't be me - I don't have the clout. > Yes we need a leader. Or we don't. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list