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Re:In Defense of Electron by mamcx on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:59PM (#15040950)
To make a good case with TK is necessary to have something alike Bootstrap or anything that look good.

I will love to have a good Widget for multiplatform (and hopefully including iOS) but most toolkits have terrible looks. That alone is a turn-off.

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Re:In Defense of Electron by aidenn0 on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:19PM (#15041112)
I know it's a bit subjective, but I find default-skinned TK apps to be much better looking than the average electron app.

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Here's a commercial application with a Tk gui that shows cross-platform screenshots:

https://installbuilder.bitrock.com/

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Re:In Defense of Electron by stouset on Thursday August 17, 2017 @10:36PM (#15043062)
I looked at the screenshots. That looks just like every piece of software made in the 90s before UI design became a thing people paid attention to.

I'm pretty sure this is making the opposite case you intended.

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Re:In Defense of Electron by mamcx on Thursday August 17, 2017 @06:17PM (#15041566)
But the TK website not show it. Is very ugly!

This is a important point. Maybe TCL/TK is amazing but need better press to show of.

Is TK available to iOS/Android? How crazy a "TK React Native" could be?

I ask because I have a potential project where cross-platform is important and wish a good toolkit to use.

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Re:In Defense of Electron by aidenn0 on Friday August 18, 2017 @01:05AM (#15043733)
Sadly it's not been ported to iOS that I'm aware of, which makes it a non-starter if you care about mobile.
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