Version 32 of Good Looking Tk

What applications written in Tcl/Tk look really good?

More often than not, when arguing the merits of Tk with someone, I am found defending its look-and-feel more than anything. People seem turned off by the fact that Tk resembles the old Motif style. In fact, Tk can resemble most anything you want it to. It just takes a little effort. - lv perhaps one or more of the authors of these good looking tk apps could write up what the little effort involves?

So, with that in mind, what Tk applications do you think look really good? What applications (screenshots) would you point someone to if you wanted to dispel the myth that Tk looks like crap?

InstallBase -- http://installbase.sourceforge.net/screenshots.shtml
snackamp -- http://snackamp.sourceforge.net
tkdiff -- http://www.accurev.com/free/tkdiff/tkdiff.gif
lipsumcolor -- http://www.oklin.com/oklin2/lipsumcolor/lipsumcolor.jpg
Oklin PAM -- http://www.oklin.com/oklin2/pam/pictures/pam_screen1_fr.jpg
Tk_Theme -- http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/Tk_Theme/Tk_Theme_With_Malephiso.png
Getleft -- http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/getleft/english/snaps.html
pgaccess -- http://bschwarz.com/projects/pgaccess/
RamDebugger
moodss -- http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss/
Alphatk -- http://www.santafe.edu/~vince/alphatk/intro.html
tkabber [L1 ] -- a very well-done Jabber client.
Impress -- [L2 ] - a WYSIWYG layout program that generates postscript.
Visual Tcl -- [L3 ] - high-quality Tcl/Tk application development environment
Browsex - - Not only looks good, it works amazingly well. Tcl API allows complete control from Tcl/Tk apps

One of the problems here is who defines good? There are quite vocal members of the community who advocate that only if gtk is supported is an application good enough for their clients. Others call for even closer move to the Windows look and feel for their clients. The Mac OS X supports want tk to look even more like that environment. About the only way that these things are going to be achieved is if these community members begin submitting patches to Tk to provide the support that they must have.

Tk cannot be seen seperately from its windows, for the scientifically oriented probably this looks good enough:

Bwise here runs on a XFree86 X windows simulator under windows XP, with a kde windows manager started from networked machine running linux. It 'wish8.4' runs on the windows XP machine, and has been compiled to have X windows interface. Probably even a lot better looks the wmaker NextStep feel windows manager which comes with cygwin, which also perfectly enough manages the X enabled Tk.

This discussion was started at c.l.t. because of an article [L4 ] at Freshmeat.

Apparently the recently concluded Tcl'2003 conference had much discussion on this topic. Read the related wiki pages for details.

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