From: Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...>
Date: 2002-08-23T06:51:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Tk and Gtk

On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 17:46, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
> >... To me tk looks a bit dated (graphics wise not
> > functionally).
> 
> This is an interesting point.  I've only written a couple of GUI programs, but 
> I found Ruby/Tk to be very functional, indeed.  It's just the look that's 
> less than appealing, compare to other libraries.
> 
> Maybe I'm just being naive, but would it be possible, perhaps, for the visuals 
> of Tk to be updated to look like some of the more modern GUI libraries?  That 
> would almost be enough for me to consider Ruby/Tk to be totally acceptable 
> for anything I'd like to write.
> 
> I realise, of course, that this is a job for the Tk people.  I wonder if 
> there's already work underway ... or is Tcl/Tk stagnant at this stage?

I was thinking the same thing.  The problem arises I think in how
flexible Tk is; the way you can already change the styles of many Tk
widgets around.  An app that wasn't written for "modern Tk" or (drool)
"themable Tk" might look like complete and total ^&*$ given that version
of Tk.

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