How do you make a good looking app with Tk? I know about Tile and Ttk, but how can I even trust those when the Windows look and feel they mention is that of Windows XP? Launched in 2001, abandoned by Microsoft in 2014 (!)

http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/screenshots/windowsxp.ht...

https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/ttk_intro.htm

I wouldn't base any commercial product I'd make on Tk, if it was meant for a large audience. Internal tools where you get to tell you users: "shut up and use the ugly app cause management already paid for it", ok, there you can use it. Otherwise... no.

There is no common definition of "good looking".

Ask people off the street instead of HN developers who like to pretend their undesigned weekend project looks good just because it almost works, and you'll find consensus more common than you think. Or even better, how unanimous the consensus is on what looks like shit.

True, but there is a common definition of "outdated". Tk looks outdated.

Design is expensive and not always an important part of a desktop application which should "do the job".

If it's internal software, yes. If you're making it for a mass market, it's a super important part.

I'll take a slower, better looking Electron app over a faster, dated looking Tk app any day.

Function follows form, I see.

How about a dated looking Electron "app"?

It doesn't work with my IME last I checked.