The built-in tile themes that ship with Tk 8.5 don't look very fancy on unix/linux platforms. For a better looking application you can use one of the additional themes that are being maintained in the tile-themes module of the tktable project on SourceForge.

You can obtain these themes by checking them out with [cvs]:

 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@tktable.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tktable login
 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@tktable.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tktable co -P tile-themes

There are two types of themes:

   1. Pixmap themes
   1. Binary themes

**Pixmap themes**

There are currently (9 Aug 2009) four pixmap themes in the tile-themes module: '''plastik''', '''keramik''', '''Aquativo''', and '''winxpblue'''. The last two take their images from the GTK themes with the same names and therefor require some form of PNG support to be available. Below is a screenshot of what these themes look like (in the order mentioned above). I tried to recreate the same gui that [DKF] used for his demo on the [tile] page.

[http://www.tclcode.com/images/themes.png]

**Binary themes**

The tile-themes module also contains two binary themes: '''tileqt''' and '''tilegtk'''.

**Discussion**
[Googie] 10 Aug 2009 - What about image files for Aquativo and winxpblue themes? Are there available somewhere?

[sbron] The images for the Aquativo and WinXP-Blue themes can be found in the corresponding GTK theme tarballs that are available on the internet. For example at: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/gnome/teams/art.gnome.org/archive/themes/gtk2/

[Googie] - I think it would be good idea to put that info into README or somewhere similar. It's not so obvious.

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