From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3006BC69 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:27:35 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAG7BEkfUnw7XiGdsb2JhbACCOIwOAQEBCAQGERg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,276,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="18014183" Received: from fhw-relay07.plus.net ([212.159.14.215]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 15 Oct 2007 10:27:35 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by fhw-relay07.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1IhLIU-0002d5-Fu for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:27:34 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: A labltk book? Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:19:15 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <470FF3F5.1040404@msu.edu> <4712C594.6050209@gushee.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710150919.15491.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Spam: no; 0.00; labltk:01 kde:01 tweaking:01 renderer:01 ocaml:01 8.5:98 frog:98 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 unix:01 unix:01 caml-list:01 graphics:02 native:03 native:03 On Monday 15 October 2007 09:01:45 Christoph Bauer wrote: > > > Tk 8.5 will make extensive use of native widgets. > > > > Good idea, I suppose. But what does "native widgets" mean for > > *nix systems--GTK? > > tile adds theme support to Tk. Screenshoots are under > http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/. Assuming the vast majority of Unix users will be using either Gnome or KDE, that is a non-native look for Unix. In fact, "Classic" looks like RISC OS to me, and "Revitalized" looks like old Windows. I must confess I don't understand the idea of tweaking pixellated widget toolkits when everyone else just moved on to hardware-accelerated vector graphics with integrated 3D. Especially when the fastest renderer available is written in OCaml, free and cross platform... :-) -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e