python question?

[Jared Greenwald]

I believe that most of the gui tools developed for Ubuntu are written
using glade.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+glade

Also, if you're familiar with Redhat programs like up2date that have
both gui and tui (text "gui") they use the snack lib for the tui in
addition to the glade gui.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+snack

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Jay Daniels<jaydanie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wondering what software ubuntu developers use?  What about GUI or
> Gnome(GTK2) with python?
>
> I have developed a simple program using Netbeans - note that this
> software is in early development, in fact dev has stopped while I
> explore other development tools.  ref here...
>
> http://jaydanie.blogspot.com/2009/05/technotes-v020a.html
>
> The problem with using automated tools when dealing with databases, if
> you want to make changes after the initial program is built and
> customized, I find this difficult with tools such as netbeans.  A newbie
> at this to say the least.  But I am unfamiliar with RAD tools in which
> you build the gui in one application and the code in the other.  This
> seems to be the norm in Linux desktop application design.
>
> I realize that developing in C++ or Python may take longer than
> Netbeans, but I believe in the long run it will make the source more
> manageable and I might even be able to understand what's going on.  I
> have looked at a similar program built with QT Libs using C++ and I am
> amazed how small the source code files are!
>
> Now that you have an idea what I want to do, what do you suggest?  Since
> I could take a trip down memory lane with pascal, I looked at Lazarus
> but the fonts are almost unreadable when installed from Ubuntu
> repositories and I failed to get the latest version from the site to
> install on 8.04.
>
> I also prefer a multi platform rad environment, but this is not etched
> in stone.  We are currently running 8.04 LTS release and a Linux native
> application would be great.
>
>
>
>
> jay
>
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