clipka wrote:
> First question: How can I get Tk to use the window manager's look & 
> feel? A simple test script resulted in something motif-like, even though 
> according to Wikipedia Tcl/Tk 8 and above should use the "native" look & 
> feel, which in this particular case is KDE4.
> 
> Or am I missing something fundamental here?


There's two possibilities. One is to frob around all the settings. You can 
probably google around for a set of configuration options for widgets 
that'll do it, altho that's the sledgehammer way.

More recently, there's "ttk", which is a re-do of Tk.  I'm afraid I haven't 
used it much, but it's apparently supposed to make that sort of thing much 
easier.

But, yes, Tk programs often look like motif. It uses native widgets where 
available - it just by default has the colors and texts and such set to 
something that makes it look like motif.

Here are some starting points, if this helps.

http://wiki.tcl.tk/9485

http://wiki.tcl.tk/11075

http://wiki.tcl.tk/14796

http://www.tkdocs.com/

It isn't trivial, but it's not too hard to match a particular style pretty 
well. Admittedly, getting it to not look too motif-like is one common 
complaint. :-)

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