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:anonymous@tktable.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tktable login
 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@tktable.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tktable co -P tile-themes

There are two types of themes:

   1. Pixmap themes
   1. 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.

[LV] Is there any thought to creating a distribution for the ttk themes mentioned above? It would really be useful. Or, at the very least, could you talk to whoever runs the Activestate tcl cvs head ftp site to see if tile-themes could be added to their site?


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