Re: GUI toolkit choice

[ides]

While I'll agree using Gtk is *harder* than using Tk, the result is a much better user interface. No offense to Tk, but when I see an app written in it I immediately think "ah how cute, a GUI app written 10 years ago" even if it wasn't. I guess it really depends on your target audience, but I don't even use Tk for personal GUI apps any longer.

One way to get around some of Gtk's code complexity is to use the Glade IDE to build your interface and then simply "load" it with Gtk2::GladeXML. This limits your code to only writing the callbacks, which is the interesting part anyway.

[vkon]

Tcl::Tk has native widgets (unlike perl/Tk) so Tk-based interface generally are modern-looking, unless you design them to be old-fashioned.

See this example on having old-fashioned and modern widgets on same application, plus you can easily run Linux-looking widgets on win32, for example

See also recent meditaion PPM - It's a GUI!! - it deals with PPM GUI written in Tk but its very nice looking!