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#12I have one comment, and I hope it's not rude: There is too much text. Everywhere where you can put text, the author put a lot of it. Sentence after sentence, rambling on. Coherently so, most of the time, sure, but just one after the other and not a single relevant screenshot for the first thousand words. Something is not right here. Either this is a joung enthusiastic coder, which is probably the case, or there is so…
I just scanned it. It's not an MVP for some product they want to attract investors. It's a tool. Which has documentation written by someone who wrote it. I hope this one is not rude too: are you sure you're just not afraid of having to read stuff rather than being spoon fed bullet points and steps?
Give me a wordcount on that readme, you'll see what I mean. If it was 1/3rd the length it'd still be one of the longest readmes ive ever read - and almsot all the ones ive read and written are by humans.
Re: PysimpleGUI
#13I have one comment, and I hope it's not rude: There is too much text. Everywhere where you can put text, the author put a lot of it. Sentence after sentence, rambling on. Coherently so, most of the time, sure, but just one after the other and not a single relevant screenshot for the first thousand words. Something is not right here. Either this is a joung enthusiastic coder, which is probably the case, or there is so…
I'll gladly take long but coherent documentation over poor or non-existent documentation. This is a strange thing to complain about in my opinion.
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#14I'm really, really excited about these GUI frameworks. Native desktop experience is so much better than web-view amalgamations. And kudos to PySimpleGUI for the simplified event loop, and multi-backend approach, that is genuinely new.
I do wonder why don't we see more "automatic" GUIs: given some data structures and functions, make a passable interface to interact with them. Use heuristics to pick when a panel should be vertically or horizontally laid out, or placed in a tabbed interface, or a popup, etc. It would unlock a lot of functionality that is too nested for CLI and too "native" for web apps.
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#15In 2023 isnt it almost always better to make a webapp through dash or something if you need a “gui”?
As a user, definitely not. Web apps are slow, require an internet connection, don't integrate nicely with my OS, and generally inferior to native GUIs in just about every way.
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#16In 2023 isnt it almost always better to make a webapp through dash or something if you need a “gui”?
...but why?
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#17I have one comment, and I hope it's not rude: There is too much text. Everywhere where you can put text, the author put a lot of it. Sentence after sentence, rambling on. Coherently so, most of the time, sure, but just one after the other and not a single relevant screenshot for the first thousand words. Something is not right here. Either this is a joung enthusiastic coder, which is probably the case, or there is so…
I found it delightful and appreciate the lengths the author went in explaining why this exists and the goals of the project. A breath of fresh air compared to the usual sea of boilerplate and links to proprietary chat apps I don't want to use.
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#18I have one comment, and I hope it's not rude: There is too much text. Everywhere where you can put text, the author put a lot of it. Sentence after sentence, rambling on. Coherently so, most of the time, sure, but just one after the other and not a single relevant screenshot for the first thousand words. Something is not right here. Either this is a joung enthusiastic coder, which is probably the case, or there is so…
I found it delightful and appreciate the lengths the author went in explaining why this exists and the goals of the project. A breath of fresh air compared to the usual sea of boilerplate and links to proprietary chat apps I don't want to use.
I urge you to scroll to any point in the readme and read, and recount what you read, because most of it is repetetive and fluff for no (obvious to me) reason
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#19I'm considering taking a tool I have which has a pretty nicely fleshed-out CLI interface and wrapping a GUI around it, so people who don't run desktop Linux can use it too. This seems like it might be perfect for my needs.
https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/finstem
Mostly I'm wondering whether anyone else has ever done what I'm trying to do here. My tool has well defined CSV, TSV and JSON flags -- has anyone else ever tried to use an actual full CLI tool unchanged to build a GUI around? What challenges should I be ready to face?
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#20I'm surprised that nothing has filled the void that VB6 left behind in the rapid application development space. The language wasn't great, but VB6's strength was the drag and drop GUI builder.