With all the talk about revitalizing Tk, I started thinking about the problem from another angle - that of the Tcl comunity. While Tk has become very popular and widely used, maybe there hasn't been enough emphasis on how to use it well?

For instance, I don't recall reading anything about GUI design in Brent Welch's otherwise excellent book.  While it's clearly out of the scope of his work, a few pointers and suggestions to go along with all of the powerful Tk tools he shows to the world would be welcome.

I think creating more "cultural awareness" of good design would be a good first step, possibly including some critiques and suggestions?

References:

* [BOOK About Face]

* http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/index.html - GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (1.0)

''Who do Gnome think they are to teach anyone how to make good GUIs? They use fonts so small that got me squinting all the time in all Gnome applications in three different distros, made me hate their whole environment practically forever and I still haven't been able to make those fonts look decently visible to the human eye. The Gnome "Control Panel" allows very little control of the fonts. I find that panel all quite pitiful, actually.''

* [Intelligent Interfaces]

Incidentally, I have a lot to learn on this subject myself, and would love it if someone gave me some thoughtful input on my own GUI apps - [davidw].