[pygtk] Improving pygtk appearance, or moving to wxPython?

[Johan Dahlin]

Greg Ewing skrev:
> Thomas Mills Hinkle wrote:
>
>> 1. If you need a widget that does not exist in other applications, 
>> you need to draw it yourself and can control the look of it.
>
> Even then, you should probably use the facilities of
> the theme mechanism wherever possible to make your
> widget follow the current theme somewhat. The Style
> object attached to a widget has methods for drawing
> lines, boxes, etc. in a way that matches the current
> style.
That depends on the widget. In some cases you don't need to do any drawing.
You can create widgets which are composed by other widgets.
In kiwi[1] there are quite a few of them:

* KiwiEntry: a Entry subclass with icon and mask support
* ComboEntry:
   KiwiEntry with entry completion + ToggleButton with a Arrow inside and
   a popup with results
* IconEntry: A mixin which adds an icon to the left or the right on an 
entry.
* HyperLink: EventBox with a label, that is clickable
* ObjectList: ScrolledWindow with a TreeView (and TreeViewColumn + 
TreeModel)
* SelectableBox: HBox/VBox which has a border around one child

The only one of them which does additional drawing is IconEntry, which 
resizes the
two windows in an entry, adds a new one where a pixbuf can be drawn.

Johan