any how , i would like to hear more about what you and every one else thinks about tcl/tk and why its the way to go for pd's gui editor .

Well, as stated some time ago, i'm not a friend of tcl/tk and i would personally trade the client/server approach for a fast and more feature-rich GUI. To my mind, a fast, OS native, but portable graphics library such as wxWindows would be a good choice. That should not have an impact on real-time behavior or latency if it is well implemented (on a separated, lower-priority thread).

I'd like to underline that the client/server possibility should of course remain, but i think it's not helpful to sacrifice the speed of a native GUI for that.

I would be very interested how many projects are actually run with the GUI on a separate machine and what the needs are for those applications, though.

greetings, Thomas