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Why not?
by rhabarba 7y ago
Why not?
- edflsafoiewq 7y agoIt doesn't work with my IME last I checked.
- oblio 7y agoHow do you make a good looking app with Tk? I know about Tile and Ttk, but how can I even trust those when the Windows look and feel they mention is that of Windows XP? Launched in 2001, abandoned by Microsoft in 2014 (!) http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/screenshots/windowsxp.html http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/screenshots/windowsxp.ht... https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/ttk_intro.htm https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/ttk_intro.htm I wouldn't base any commercial product I'd make on Tk, if it was meant for a large audience. Internal tools where you get to tell you users: "shut up and use the ugly app cause management already paid for it", ok, there you can use it. Otherwise... no.
- rhabarba 7y agoThere is no common definition of "good looking".
- oblio 7y agoTrue, but there is a common definition of "outdated". Tk looks outdated.
- rhabarba 7y agoDesign is expensive and not always an important part of a desktop application which should "do the job".
- oblio 7y agoIf it's internal software, yes. If you're making it for a mass market, it's a super important part.
- CDSlice 7y agoI'll take a slower, better looking Electron app over a faster, dated looking Tk app any day.
- rhabarba 7y agoFunction follows form, I see. How about a dated looking Electron "app"?
- hombre_fatal 7y agoAsk people off the street instead of HN developers who like to pretend their undesigned weekend project looks good just because it almost works, and you'll find consensus more common than you think. Or even better, how unanimous the consensus is on what looks like shit.