Re: TCL/TK as default UI toolkit, and wayland

2016-10-14 Thread Michael Torrie
On 10/14/2016 05:40 AM, kerbingamer376 wrote: > Python's "standard" (and bundled on most platforms) UI tookkit is TCL/TK. > However, this has A LOT of drawbacks: > > * It's eyesore on a lot of platforms I thought this was largely solved in recent versions of Tcl/Tk that use the new Tile widget s

Re: TCL/TK as default UI toolkit, and wayland

2016-10-14 Thread Chris Warrick
On 14 October 2016 at 13:40, kerbingamer376 wrote: > Python's "standard" (and bundled on most platforms) UI tookkit is TCL/TK. > However, this has A LOT of drawbacks: > > * It's eyesore on a lot of platforms > * It's non-pythonic > * It just flat out fails on some desktop environments > * On linu

Re: TCL/TK as default UI toolkit, and wayland

2016-10-14 Thread kerbingamer376
On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 12:40:53 PM UTC+1, kerbingamer376 wrote: > Python's "standard" (and bundled on most platforms) UI tookkit is TCL/TK. > However, this has A LOT of drawbacks: > > * It's eyesore on a lot of platforms > * It's non-pythonic > * It just flat out fails on some desktop env

Re: TCL/TK as default UI toolkit, and wayland

2016-10-14 Thread kerbingamer376
Python's "standard" (and bundled on most platforms) UI tookkit is TCL/TK. However, this has A LOT of drawbacks: * It's eyesore on a lot of platforms * It's non-pythonic * It just flat out fails on some desktop environments * On linux it requires X, however lots of distros are now using wayland an