Well - I have to say - I just joined the list a very short time ago, and just contributed a bit here and there to pygtk, but this email really inspired me to write about point n.3.
My dream would really to be able to see gnome apps using a PyGTK-thing that worked like VBA - please dont kill me just yet, I will try to explain myself. A thing I really miss in the whole Gnome "experience", is something like what you can do in Word, Powerpoint, and other Windows apps that use COM and VB. Now, I hear you say: "But we can do that! We have bonobo! And the app developer has to add support for plugins. All you have to do is use your favorite editor/RAD and write the application". This is what I think could be improved - If there was some sort of VBA-like thing using PyGTK, that you can just "attach" to your application, that would make things so nice. I believe everything from an infrastructure point of view is already there: * Bonobo + the pygtk bonobo bindings * PyGTK * gtksourceview * <insert some GUI builder here> Well - I know - it is a lot of work to put these things together, and then a lot of politics to convince people to use it. But I guess, if I had time to do it, I would try. One issue I see with the acceptance of this is that (I may be completely wrong here) some people may see Mono as the "silver bullet" for this problem. I am not that familiar with Mono to say for sure. Ah. Feel much better now :) --- Matthew Bull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realise I'm quite new to this list but I've been working with PyGTK > for a while now and would welcome peoples feedback on something. please > put me straight if I'm treading on toes, or reiterating an old > discussion. > > There have been several discussions on the list in the last few months > about trying to get PyGTK into the standard library, and whilst > attending europython recently I had an opportunity to steer > conversations in that direction with a lot of people to get a feel for > the (european at least) communities take on this, most of the people I > spoke to where non PyGTK folks, and the opinions seemed to be generally > favourable. > > there where however a few buts... > > 1. Documentation - > > this is something that has been discussed on the list quite a few times > and actually I think the exsisting free docs are perfectly adequate it > seemed to mostly come from people who had tried PyGTK "back in the day" > (when I seem to remember there wasn't a lot of documentation) > > 2. Windows - > > many people seemed surprised that GTK ran on windows at all and others > had been put of by all the various different ways of doing it, I have > been reading the [Installation Problems on Win32] thread that seems to > be raging on so I'll just add my two pence worth from what I've gathered > so far the python community at large and the maintainers of the standard > libraries would want a simple "drop it in" installer for the basic gtk > runtime (a la dropline). > > 3.Idle - > > Actually most people seemed to be oblivious to Idle but I can see it > would have to be ported to GTK (almost re-written) and this is where I > come in, I've already been doing some stuff with a simple text editor > written in python and PyGTK and I have some time available so if no one > else wants the job I'll take it on, help would be appreciated or if > someone else wants the job (or has already started it), my help is > offered. > > So is this something the PyGTK community wants to see happen? I for one > would love to see PyGTK in the standard distro, (Tk is sooooo long in > the tooth its untrue) and am willing to put in some work to see it > happen, so if its already happening put me to work!, if not could we > make it happen?? > > thanks for taking the time to read this > > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk > Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/ > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
