Not sure if this is the right place to talk about this. Even less sure if I can move this discussion to tkinter list, so here I am...
I know this may sound a silly question because no one can see the future. But ... Do you think tkinter is going to be the standard python built-in gui solution as long as python exists? I couldn't help but wonder if wx or PySide receives better py2 and py3 support, or anything else that prevent them from getting into the standard python distributions, whether or not this scene could start to shift ... I believe this "which one of tkinter, wx, qt, is the best gui toolkit for python" flame war has been going on for ages. I love the fact that python ships a built-in gui solution which makes shipping a pure-python desktop application a viable choice. But tkinter does not appear to be the most time-saving way to write a gui app. The layout designer support, for one, is next to zero. I tried many 3rd-party designers and loved PAGE (http://page.sourceforge.net) for a few minutes, then came the author's comment: "For release 4.0, I spent about two months working with the “Theme” part of Ttk and have had only partial success. I now believe that the “Theme” part of Ttk is really a very poor piece of software at all levels - concept, implementation, and especially documentation. My guess is if it had been well documented it would have been recognized by even the author as junk. I find it hard to believe that the people who control Tcl/Tk allowed it in the code base. I continue to support ttk because of the paned window, notebook and treeview widgets." And ttk seems to be a major attraction that keeps people coming back to tk for the looks. This worries me very much about whether I should start a gui app using python. Because if ttk is not a "mature" technology, I'd avoid premature adoption. If ttk is out of the question, tkinter will be too. I'd then be forced to use a 3rd-party solution like wx or qt, which I really don't want to see. Anyways, this is just some concerns that I hope someone may give his/her opinions about. Thanks!
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