Tk 8.5.x is starting to trickle down to Linux distributions and the next release of R for Windows will ship with 8.5.1 (the binary builds of R-devel already do).
According to http://www.tkdocs.com the new themed widget set has much to recommend it, and it certainly looks much better on MacOS and Windows. I've added bindings to package tcltk for R-devel, and taken a quick look at what would be needed to convert package Rcmdr to make use of them. in many uses they are a drop-in replacement (e.g. ttkbutton for tkbutton), but some of the customizations (fg="red") have different names (foreground="red", which also works for tkbutton) and others are replaced by the theme. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
