
You thought Tcl/Tk stands for 'obsolete GUI'? You define the looks of Tk as 'prehistoric'? Or do you visualize ugly interfaces when reading this? I certainly do. Mats Bengtsson
writes:
"Tcl's windowing toolkit, Tk, has been 'known' to be ugly and outdated. With the 8.5 release last December the tile package, now named ttk (Themed Tk), is included in the core which brings true native widgets on Windows (yes, Vista too) and Mac." But what about Linux? Mats points at
tileqt and the new
tilegtk and notes:
"Imagine that you can switch theme, and toolkits, on the fly without any program restart." Finally, he mentions progresses in both
tkpath and support for
WebKit. He concludes:
"When all this comes together it will make Tk a very competitive toolkit."
Member since:
2005-10-13
amsn has been compilable with tcl/tk 8.5 for quite some time now and looks much better that way.
However, amsn2 is in development now and they're using the enlightenment tooklit for the 'official' gui in v2. That said, I have read about a Qt, GTK and tcl/tk version, too.