On 08/25/2016 11:30 AM, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
> Hi
>
> ISTM that right now the only option if you want to develop a graphical
> desktop application is GTK. At least it seems to be the only one on
> the modules list. You may very well correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> I'm thinking if anybody has any knowledge of other projects, perhaps
> Qt5, Wx, or any other on or off this list:
> https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/WxWidgets_Compared_To_Other_Toolkits .
>
> Note: I'm not saying that GTK is bad, or there's anything wrong with
> it. Just looking for alternatives, with a not-too-short horizon.
>
> /kaare
>
Hey Kaare,
with Inline::Python you can use at least one of the Qt bindings python
has. I forgot whether it's PyQt or PySide that nine tested
Inline::Python with, but it did definitely work. And Inline::Python also
gives you Tk, bindings for GTK 2 and 3, WxWidgets and probably more others.
The KDE project has something called "SMOKE" that has almost zero
documentation, but it'd allow us to build a full binding for Qt with
relatively low effort - once someone has SMOKE figured out.
Other than that, we have a native Electron binding, which is the thing
that powers the Atom Editor if i'm not mistaken.
Maybe the "most wanted" document for native bindings wants a bit of a
touch-up in this area:
https://github.com/perl6/perl6-most-wanted/blob/master/most-wanted/bindings.md#user-interfaces
Hope that helps!
- Timo
