[davidw]

I think that Tcl and Tk have a terrible "marketing operation" and haven't done a very good job of getting the word out about things like this - it's a huge improvement.

This has some screenshots, which are a bit out of date, but show that things have improved:

http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/

[moder]

Looking at the Tile screenshots for Unix, I don't see any that are antialiased (like the rest of my desktop), though "Revitalized" doesn't look bad at all.

(Incidentally, Tile doesn't seem very active. It's last News page update is from 2006.)

I think you're right about the "marketing" for Tk. The three things that keep people away from Tk (IMO) are probably:

1. the notion that they'll have to install or use Tcl,

2. the extra work of having to install various plug-ins/theme-engines/whatever to get a more modern-looking GUI, and

3. the revulsion at seeing non-antialiased fonts in GUI widgets.

If someone were to come along and bundle up Tcl/Tk with Tile and make the whole thing dead-easy to install and start using, I think that would be a major step forward for Tk. (Hm. Looks like it may have been proposed to do that back in 2005: http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/248 . What ever happened to that?)

[moder]

Wait. http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.5.tml . Most recent release was ... last month.

Looking at that list of Tk highlights, I'm getting the impression that various screenshots and wiki docs on the net are a tad out of date. It would seem that Tile has already been included. Tk 8.5 is looking quite good.