In a message of Fri, 22 May 2015 21:52:27 +0200, Christian Gollwitzer writes: >Am 22.05.15 um 15:03 schrieb Laura Creighton: >> I don't know anything about Camelot. Tkinter produces widgets that are >> in no way as pretty graphically as is expected nowadays -- or indeed for >> at least 15 years. If this matters to you -- or if you are building for >> customers if it matters to them, then Tkinter is not a good choice. > >Tkinter doesn't need to be ugly. At least if you are on Windows or OSX, >you can make near-native looking programs, if you stick to the simple >rule to use ttk everywhere and never try to override background colors >etc. Another important rule is that icons play an important role. A >decent icon set makes a big difference.
I didn't know that. Thank you. >Would you spot that it is not a "native" Windows app? It's raw Tcl/Tk >rather than Tkinter, but there is no specific reason why it couldn't be >done in Python/Tkinter. On Linux, yes, the default themes are quite >ugly. There are some workarounds, like loading the bitmap plastik theme, >but this is substantially more (configuration) work. And, of course, I live in the linux world. I didn't know about the bitmap plastik theme, either, thank you again. > > Christian Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
