[Tkinter-discuss] Third-party ttk themes

[Michael Lange]

Hi,

On Thu, 07 May 2015 02:07:26 -0700
memilanuk <memilanuk at gmail.com> wrote:

> So... using Anaconda 2.2.0 / Python 3.4.3 on Linux, and the only ttk 
> themes that came with are 'clam', 'alt', 'default' and 'classic'.  I've 
> seen reference to other theme names like 'aqua', 'step', 'winnative', 
> 'vista' and 'xpnative'.  Are these themes - or others like them - 
> available somewhere, some sort of theme repository?

as Kevin already pointed out, on linux you can only use these four
built-in themes, however if you are interested in more themes you can try
the tile-themes from http://tktable.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tktable/
IIRC the qt ang tk themes are outdated and will not work, the other five
pixmap themes work fine (and personally I think the "plastik" theme is
really nice).
Unfortunately there is no such thing as an installer, you would have to
download the tile-themes folder manually, copy it
into /usr/share/tile-themes and add the missing pkgIndex.tcl file that
should contain the lines:

set themesdir [file join [pwd] [file dirname [info script]]]
lappend auto_path $themesdir

so Tk will be able to find the themes.

Then you can load the themes with:

root.tk.call('package', 'require', 'tile-themes')

and see if it worked wtih:

themes = root.tk.call('ttk::themes')
print(themes)

Unfortunately theme_names() will still fail to find these third party
themes, but ttk::themes works fine.

Best regards

Michael

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