Tkinter and Tile

[Ben Finney]

Howdy all,

Python programmers looking for a built-in GUI toolkit are told two
things: one, Python already comes with a GUI toolkit, and two, it
looks equally ugly on all platforms. This is because the Tk widget
library, that Tkinter uses, defaults to looking like Motif, which
hasn't been the default widget set of *anything* for a long time.

The Tk folks are apparently getting their act together. Tile is a
"theming engine" for Tk with widgets that look and act native::

    <URL:http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/>

Tile is included with Tcl/Tk 8.5 and Tcl developers, at least, are
encouraged to migrate to using it::

    <URL:http://wiki.tcl.tk/11075>

What effect will this have on Python's Tkinter? Is it possible we can
soon expect that the long-time, but much-neglected, built-in GUI
module for Python can take advantage of this and provide widgets that
look and act like the native GUI on Unix, Windows and MacOS?

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Ben Finney