Tcl - Re: Can TK be iSexy?

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Re: Can TK be iSexy?

Larry W. Virden

2007-04-26, 8:06 am

On Apr 25, 4:15 am, Christian Gollwitzer <Christian.Gollwit...@uni-
bayreuth.de> wrote:
> alex....@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Are you aware of tile and ttk in Tk8.5? Is this still not enough
> eye-candy for your needs?
>
> Christian

Notice that Alex mentioned Vista and Beryl. Does Ttk work, out of the
box, fitting into those two OSes?

Joe English

2007-04-26, 10:06 pm

Larry W. Virden wrote:
>
>Notice that Alex mentioned Vista and Beryl. Does Ttk work, out of the
>box, fitting into those two OSes?

Yes, with caveats:

Tile releases up to and including 0.7.8 have a minor bug,
fixed in the just-released Tk 8.5a6 and in Tile CVS.
With the fix, apps will get Vista-style controls; without
it, they'll fall back to Windows 2K-style controls.

Beryl/Compiz isn't an OS, it's a collection of enhancements to the
X server and desktop environment. Ttk works just fine in that environment,
but doesn't take any special advantage of it either. Out-of-the-box,
Ttk on X11 still looks like 2002-era Gtk+, as per design.

--Joe English

Pat Thoyts

2007-04-30, 8:23 am

Georgios Petasis <petasis@iit.demokritos.gr> writes:

>O/H Donal K. Fellows Î_Î³ÏÎ±ÏÎµ:
>
>What exactly are these "Beryl/Compiz" features? When I hear "compiz"
>the only thing that comes into my mind is some screenshots I have seen
>in magazines, about a window manager (?) that shows the virtual
>desktops on a cube that somebody can turn around (in order to select a
>desktop).
>Is it something more? Are there any screenshots available?
>
>(My linux is a fedora core 6. I haven't event searched if these things
>are available there...)

So far the only feature I have found that becomes available under a
composing window manager is transparency using wm attributes -alpha
starts working. This is present for Windows and Aqua and and with a
suitable window manager becomes available for X.

Otherwise these window managers are all about wobbly windows and stuff
and not really applicable. More important is to get a Gtk+ native
theme sorted that uses Gtk+ apis to draw tile elements.

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