Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit

Re:Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit by WoodenChair on Saturday August 09, 2014 @06:01PM (#8158134)

That's a matter of design, not an observation based on technical merits.

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Re:Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit by ZenoArrow on Saturday August 09, 2014 @10:27PM (#8158646)

Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't the main 'hook' for this library that it looks native? Looks like it uses GTK+, so from a technical standpoint it would be as "native" as Qt.

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Re:Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit by freakboy3742 on Sunday August 10, 2014 @02:46AM (#8159055)

Project author here; let me confirm that Toga only uses GTK+ under Ubuntu/Linux. On OS/X, it uses Cocoa. I've just clarified the text in that section of the website. Thanks for the heads up.

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Re:Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit by ZenoArrow on Sunday August 10, 2014 @09:18AM (#8159646)

Thank you for the clarification.

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Re:Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit by ColinCera on Saturday August 09, 2014 @11:14PM (#8158736)

It does not use GTK+ on a Mac, it uses Cocoa, so it is fully native. Read the docs.

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Re:Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit by icefox on Saturday August 09, 2014 @11:43PM (#8158803)

Hmm, they should update their front page than. It is pretty clear in stating "Toga uses the system native python GTK+3 bindings for display purposes."

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Re:Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit by ColinCera on Sunday August 10, 2014 @12:21AM (#8158852)

That sentence you quote is immediately underneath the heading "Problems using virtualenv under Ubuntu" — it applies only to Ubuntu, where they do use GTK. But on Mac, they use Cocoa, as stated in several places in the docs.

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