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Ttk enables modern widget rendering in Tk for those who can't appreciate the benefits of drawing without pixmaps everywhere. Been available for 10+ years.


10+ years ago Tk was already outdated in what concerns UI design.

Motif widgets on System 7 and Windows NT/2000? No thanks.


You missed the part about TTK, which makes TK use modern widgets, hence is nowhere near like "classic" TK and very much native in terms of rendering.

See https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/widgets.html#button


Any GUI developer knows that UI/UX is much more than just rendering the same.

Back when Tk still mattered even the attempt to emulate Win32 L&F was just partially done.

I very much doubt that it has improved.


It's not emulation, it's wrapper on top of native ui toolkit. win32 for windows, cocoa for macos.


I am speaking about when Tk mattered, around 2000's.




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