Turning the PyGTK+ brand into something more than it currently is

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

I like Python. I help new people out in Python IRC channels, on forums, and I recommend Python to friends and family who say they want to learn programming.

At some point, the time comes when they want to start doing fancy graphical GUI stuff. And after a little bit of research, they come to a dilemma: "should I use PyGTK+ or PyQt?"

They don't know that PyGTK+ is dead, or if they somehow found that out, they don't realize that there's a better replacement right around the corner. http://www.pygtk.org/ is still around, but it looks like it hasn't been updated since 1998, given the retro scanline effect on the header. It of course also doesn't help that the last notable news event was reported on April Fools.

Sometimes they've heard of this "PyGObject", but they conclude it's a low-level plumbing layer.

The PyGTK+ reference docs come up a lot when Googling for them; obviously, our better documentation solution actually based on introspection information isn't ready yet, but I wonder if there's some minor tweaks we can make to make the solution suck less there.

I think we could do a lot more with the PyGTK+ name and http://www.pygtk.org/ to promote gobject-introspection as our new, exciting solution. If nothing else, it rolls off the tongue much easier. Say it a few times.

Anybody have any other ideas here?

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  Jasper