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It’s only because TK was so butt-ugly
by WD-42 2y ago
It’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.