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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-05-11 14:56:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-05-11 14:56:04 +0000 |
| commit | ae98f50eca5c5fbae6ae9ba390c5ed8729489b00 (patch) | |
| tree | 881e62d1273fd5cfdc4e114193ae9dcf76729774 | |
| parent | 9020ff88e6cbc024c089944aa8d64a1bb8d9f9c4 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-ae98f50eca5c5fbae6ae9ba390c5ed8729489b00.tar.gz | |
#2709 followup: better description of Tk's pros and cons.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/othergui.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/tk.rst | 11 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/othergui.rst b/Doc/library/othergui.rst index ab4efdb3b5..2d4ea3729a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/othergui.rst +++ b/Doc/library/othergui.rst @@ -69,10 +69,9 @@ also available for Python: <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932394621>`_, by Noel Rappin and Robin Dunn. -PyGTK, PyQt, and wxPython, all have a modern look and feel and far more -widgets and better documentation than Tkinter. In addition, -there are many other GUI toolkits for Python, both cross-platform, and -platform-specific. See the `GUI Programming +PyGTK, PyQt, and wxPython, all have a modern look and feel and more +widgets than Tkinter. In addition, there are many other GUI toolkits for +Python, both cross-platform, and platform-specific. See the `GUI Programming <http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming>`_ page in the Python Wiki for a much more complete list, and also for links to documents where the different GUI toolkits are compared. diff --git a/Doc/library/tk.rst b/Doc/library/tk.rst index 8451f6d5e0..944687bb02 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tk.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tk.rst @@ -22,11 +22,12 @@ classes. In addition, the internal module :mod:`_tkinter` provides a threadsafe mechanism which allows Python and Tcl to interact. :mod:`Tkinter`'s chief virtues are that it is fast, and that it usually comes -bundled with Python. Although it has been used to create some very good -applications, including IDLE, its standard documentation is weak (but there -are some good books and tutorials), and it has an outdated look and -feel. For more modern, better documented, and much more extensive GUI -libraries, see the :ref:`other-gui-packages` section. +bundled with Python. Although its standard documentation is weak, good +material is available, which includes: references, tutorials, a book and +others. :mod:`Tkinter` is also famous for having an outdated look and feel, +which has been vastly improved in Tk 8.5. Nevertheless, there are many other +GUI libraries that you could be interested in. For more information about +alternatives, see the :ref:`other-gui-packages` section. .. toctree:: |