Version 3 of Tile themes

Updated 2009-08-13 18:45:00 by Googie

The built-in tile themes that ship with Tk 8.5 don't look very fancy on unix/linux platforms. For a better looking application you can use one of the additional themes that are being maintained in the tile-themes module of the tktable project on SourceForge.

You can obtain these themes by checking them out with cvs:

 cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/tktable login
 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/tktable co -P tile-themes

There are two types of themes:

  1. Pixmap themes
  2. Binary themes

Pixmap themes

There are currently (9 Aug 2009) four pixmap themes in the tile-themes module: plastik, keramik, Aquativo, and winxpblue. The last two take their images from the GTK themes with the same names and therefor require some form of PNG support to be available. Below is a screenshot of what these themes look like (in the order mentioned above). I tried to recreate the same gui that DKF used for his demo on the tile page.

http://www.tclcode.com/images/themes.png

Binary themes

The tile-themes module also contains two binary themes: tileqt and tilegtk.

Discussion

Googie 10 Aug 2009 - What about image files for Aquativo and winxpblue themes? Are there available somewhere?

sbron The images for the Aquativo and WinXP-Blue themes can be found in the corresponding GTK theme tarballs that are available on the internet. For example at: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/gnome/teams/art.gnome.org/archive/themes/gtk2/

Googie - I think it would be good idea to put that info into README or somewhere similar. It's not so obvious.

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