Tk 8.5.x is starting to trickle down to Linux distributions and the next
release of R for Windows will ship with 8.5.1 (the binary builds of
R-devel already do).
According to http://www.tkdocs.com the new themed widget set has much to
recommend it, and it certainly looks much better on MacOS and Windows.
I've added bindings to package tcltk for R-devel, and taken a quick look
at what would be needed to convert package Rcmdr to make use of them. in
many uses they are a drop-in replacement (e.g. ttkbutton for tkbutton),
but some of the customizations (fg="red") have different names
(foreground="red", which also works for tkbutton) and others are
replaced
by the theme.
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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