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In the 1990s, an awful lot of Linux apps were Tk/Tcl. People complained then about them not being "native", but they were slimmer and better performing than the
by jhbadger 2y ago
In the 1990s, an awful lot of Linux apps were Tk/Tcl. People complained then about them not being "native", but they were slimmer and better performing than the typical Java or Electron app of today.
- WD-42 2y agoIt’s only because TK was so butt-ugly
- hulitu 2y agoYou should see Windows {10,11} or Android. /s
- _mlbt 2y agoTk’s look was based directly on the Motif widget toolkit that was dominant on UNIX workstations at the time it was created.
- kragen 2y agoYes, unfortunately, though Tk wasn't quite as bad as the dystopian Brutalist Soviet horror of Motif.
- johnisgood 2y agoAgreed, but you can stylize them now with ttk (https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/styles.html https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/styles.html and https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Ttk https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Ttk). There are other ways, too, but I do not have the source code at hand at the moment (as I have done this before).
- spauldo 2y agoIt was better looking than Athena or OpenLook, which were your other two free options back then. GTK+ wasn't around, QT was mostly unknown and had license issues anyway, and Motif cost money.