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Re: TECH: PNG files

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Monday, October 11, 1999, 15:01
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Paul Bennett wrote:

> > This page seems to have GTk+ for win32 as well? > > Boudewijn, (or was it someone else? Charles? Ed? Don?) did you say something > about putting Kura into GTk+? Or am I mixing my metaphors, as it were? >
No, not at all. I think Gnome and GTK are unneeded aberrations produced by a strong manifestation of the Not Invented Here Syndrome, and a dashed bad toolkit to boot. I find working with a bad case of unfun. The only reason the Gimp is not at the Interface Hall of Shame is that the Isys people use Windows (http://www.iarchitect.com). I will make a KDE/Qt interface for Kura and a web interface for some selected functionality. But I've neatly separated the application code from the interface code, so it is quite possible to develop separate interface modules. That's an exercise I leave to the reader - although, if someone would want to do it, I think they should use WxWindows, which has a good Python interface, a decent object model, and uses the Microsoft widgets natively on Windows and Gtk on Unix (which I find a pity). I wouldn't consider using TkInter, Wpy, Fox or any of the other widget sets.
> In the words of a great personal idol, "I have a cunning plan..."
If you want to have a go, be my guest. I've just finished the redesign of the database access layer, which is now much more flexible and performs better. That's the best of Python, you can redevelop less succesful parts of a project without much exercise. Boudewijn Rempt | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt