RE: Tk's lack of "chrome" (prompted by Re: Tk::FunkyButton ?)

"Jack D." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.tk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Ing-Simmons
> Sent: December 6, 2005 1:51 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Tk's lack of "chrome" (prompted by Re: Tk::FunkyButton ?)
> 
> 
> I have had various of list (and even day job) complaints that 
> perk/Tk "looks old fashioned".
> 
> Also tracking/converting Tcl/Tk is a pain (and core Tk is 
> where most of the "look" comes from).
> 
> So for perl6 (when it comes) I would rather 
> write/help-out-with a native perl/XS GUI

I'm echoing the comments of Ala and Steve. I think the best route is to
somehow tie into the tcl toolkit instead. Although - I would certainly miss
being able to create pure perl/Tk megawidgets. If that could be kept then
all the better.

Jack
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