Comment by Kaze404

4 years ago

Why not just use GTK or Qt?

2 comments

Kaze404

GTK:

    import gi

    gi.require_version("Gtk", "3.0")
    from gi.repository import Gtk


    class MyWindow(Gtk.Window):
        def __init__(self):
            Gtk.Window.__init__(self, title="Hello World")

            self.button = Gtk.Button(label="Click Here")
            self.button.connect("clicked", self.on_button_clicked)
            self.add(self.button)

        def on_button_clicked(self, widget):
            print("Hello World")


    win = MyWindow()
    win.connect("destroy", Gtk.main_quit)
    win.show_all()
    Gtk.main()

HTML:

    <html><body>
      <button onclick="alert('Hello World')">Click Here</button>
    </body></html>

Now try implementing a swipe tab UI in GTK with animations and embedded video. In HTML you can probably import someone's awesome library .js file and be done with it in 5 minutes. Video is a snap. In GTK you have to deal with some idiotic factories, pipelines, sinks, faucets, and other god-knows-what abstractions. In HTML it's just <video>.

Kaze404 4 years ago

You could also use a glade file and only worry about functionality on the code itself. It's not too bad.