Re: TECH: PNG files

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