Package: tk8.4 Version: 8.4.12-1 Followup-For: Bug #287807 Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote in a "wishlist" bugreport a long time ago:
> tk8.4 can look rather ugly without anti-aliasing these days I'd go further than that - I'd consider Tk8.4's look on X a bug. Tcl/Tk programs on Linux hurt your eyes. The intuitive reaction at the instant when a Tk window apears is fear - it reminds me of "bluescreens" and X or the graphics driver falling apart. It's horrible. Thus I'm wondering why Tk or - since they don't *seem* to be regarding that as a problem in itself [1] - Debian couldn't switch to a eye-friendlier Tk look. I'm suggesting to supply a /etc/X11/app-defaults/Tk with sane defaults, which would be read and evaluated by Tk itself [2] and could be overriden by the application at will. Of course one can go further, but the principal pain comes from the dead ugly default font that Tk uses, which I'd suggest to pre-set to Helvetica (or any other sane font - I don't care very much) instead. I don't know if you Chris or maybe the maintainer team (?) are hoping for tk8.5 instead which should include xft? Thanks, *t [1] http://wiki.tcl.tk/10101, follow also the links [2] http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tcl-faq/tk/part1/ -> 4.1 -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages tk8.4 depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-5 X11 client-side library ii tcl8.4 8.4.12-1.1 Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8 ii xlibs 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m Versions of packages tk8.4 recommends: ii konsole [x-terminal-em 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 X terminal emulator for KDE hi xterm [x-terminal-emul 222-1etch2 X terminal emulator -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
