What are the advantages of PyQt over PyGTK and vice-versa?
I have an application whose GUI is to be remade for ergonomic reasons. It was written in PyGTK and I am wondering if I should switch to PyQt to ease future developments or not.
This application has a mostly classical UI with buttons, toolbars, dialogs etc. but also has some specific requirements : I will certainly need to create a custom widget based on treeview/tableview (to make a spreadsheet-like widget) and this application has a lot of worker threads which update the GUI.
I am seeking advice on these two points :
- As regards the creation custom widgets, does PyQt provide better mechanisms than PyGTK, especially to slightly modify existing widgets.
- I had problems with (even when properly using threads_init() and threads_enter()) the updating of the GUI by worker threads while using PyGTK. Is PyQt any better on that point ?
Answer
I like GTK+ best, since (at least to me) it looks nicer. PyQt and variants (e.g. PySide), however, do have an immensely large set of extras, including a WebKit engine, an XML parser, SQL support, and more.
If you just want looks, I'd say GTK+/PyGObject. If you are plannning on using anything PyQt has, use PyQt.
As a side note, if you stick with GTK+, I'd advise you to upgrade to PyGObject and GTK+ 3.0, since PyGtk+ is no longer maintained.