Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le jeudi 11 mai 2006 à 10:00 -0600, Travis E. Oliphant a écrit : >> That sounds reasonable. As I said before, I like the idea of PyGUI. >> My main consternation is wxWindows. I'm not a big fan of how wxPython >> builds on top of wxWindows which builds on top of GTK which itself >> builds on GDI which is itself a cross-platform layer on top of X11. > > You are mixing up a lot of things. > AFAIK there is nothing named GDI in or under GTK. GDI is the drawing > layer in Microsoft Windows. > There is something named GDK which is a general non-graphical library to > complement the C stdlib, not a "cross-platform layer on top of X11".
You're mixing up things too, you meant glib instead of GDK. And GDK is a cross-platform layer originally designed to be very similar to the Xlib API. It's been ported to Win32, Linux framebuffer, Cocoa and DirectFB. > As if the layers of indirection were visible to the developer? > How do you think less layers would have improved your developer > experience? More importantly, how native does the application feel? Does it integrate with the rest of the desktop or does it live in it's own world? Johan _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
