On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 13:07 +0000, rzed wrote: > Desktop apps don't seem to be the wave of the future, but they still > serve a useful purpose today. They can be ideal for a quick database > table management screen,
+1, they are perfect for that, and will be around for a *long* *long* time. And I doubt they will ever go away - the web app will change to be more desktopish. Gtk already has an experimental HTML canvas backend, GNOME3 is a canvas controlled via JavaScript, etc... > or a data entry front end for a program with > a bunch of parameters. It's not easy enough to build a quick utility > with a GUI front end, though. Wax and PythonCard (and maybe others) > tried to hit that niche, but development on both is spotty at best. > Some claim that Dabo's gui builder is a good one for this purpose, and > maybe it can be. Are there any other, better solutions? My advice is to keep it simple. Gtk/Glade works perfectly well for this purpose. The glue code required is trivial. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
