Tk, the ugly grandpa zombie of the GUI toolkits. That means Motif widgets 
on X, yay (ok there are other themes, but zero integration into Gnome/KDE). 
Its not something that I would want to use on the Unix side of the 
cross-platform system. 



On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 8:30:38 AM UTC-4, Nathan Dunfield wrote:
>
> On Sunday, March 10, 2013 1:35:28 PM UTC-5, mmarco wrote:
>
>> I am not sure pyGTK (or pyQT, or any other python bindings) is the way 
>> to go. As you said, it would require to install pyGTK, but also GTK 
>> itself and python. I think that is overkill.
>
>
> I haven't used PyGTK, but I do have experience building self-contained 
> Windows apps based on Python/Tk.   A basic Windows-style installer, 
> including Python, Tk, etc, weights in at about 4Mb, which is negligible 
> compared to Sage itself.  Using GTK might add a little to that, but 
> probably not much, and you'd gain a lot in terms of ease of 
> maintenance by doing things in Python instead of writing a native Windows 
> app.    Actually, for a very basic GUI, Tk would be a reasonable choice 
> instead of GTK or QT; it's long in the tooth, but it's hard to beat in 
> terms of minimal effort to get an acceptable result.  
>
>
>

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