Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marko Rauhamaa Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Everything good about Python except GUI IDE? Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:08:31 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: <87twksdg9c.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> References: <64a6599c-fae1-469d-bcee-875165b3cc7d@googlegroups.com> <56d294f8$0$1604$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <234a398e-1b0f-467b-a8cb-d7ca748f8062@googlegroups.com> <84922f24-3e00-4a23-b26d-5e6c0d8e7e04@googlegroups.com> <87y4a5c58i.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b7cb1518d23ec19d482dcc9c31d30fdd"; logging-data="30898"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+1DDpoWHMnUjAEL8Lp3cv8" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DcW0Q7tNd0a7Nra5nv82IY238Ck= sha1:M3dLo2xf6P6azGB83peInDdXkJ0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:103647 Rustom Mody : > On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 7:22:08 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Rustom Mody : >> >> > whereas in fact every significant GUI embeds text (possibly >> > recursively) >> > >> > eg TI inside GUI -- think of text inside gimp GUI inside TI -- >> > think of Word embedding other doc types including pictures Which >> > can be recursive -- WOrd embeds a picture embeds text >> >> Sigh, still nobody has mentioned an exemplary GUI application. >> >> An anecdote: Some weeks back my son and I were struggling to get the >> right kind of graph out of Excel. After four hours of Google, >> Youtube, trial and error, we gave up, took out a pad of millimeter >> paper and some colored pencils. The whole job took my son an hour and >> the end result looked great. He snapped a picture and sent it to the >> teacher by email. > > Point being?? I'm awaiting for an opposite anecdote, a GUI app you absolutely love and recommend as a model for GUI developers. We are talking about GUI tools to produce what? Crap? Marko