Tkinter look (theme) in Linux

Question

I know that Tkinter is not so modern, not so cool and maybe better to use PyQt or etc.

But it is interesting for me can Tkinter look not so ugly in Ubuntu (Linux). Looks

Answer 1

All available themes of ttk can be seen with such commands:

$ python
>>> import ttk
>>> s=ttk.Style()
>>> s.theme_names()
('clam', 'alt', 'default', 'classic')

So you can use 'clam', 'alt', 'default', 'classic' themes with your version of Tkinter.

After trying all of them I think the best one is 'clam'. You can use this one or any other in following way:

from Tkinter import *
from ttk import *

class App():
  def __init__(self, master):
    frame = Frame(master)
    frame.pack()

    master.title("Just my example")
    self.label = Label(frame, text="Type very long text:")

    self.entry = Entry(frame)

    self.button = Button(frame,
                         text="Quit", width=15,
                         command=frame.quit)


    self.slogan = Button(frame,
                         text="Hello", width=15,
                         command=self.write_slogan)

    self.label.grid(row=0, column=0)
    self.entry.grid(row=0, column=1)
    self.slogan.grid(row=1, column=0, sticky='e')
    self.button.grid(row=1, column=1, sticky='e')

  def write_slogan(self):
    print "Tkinter is easy to use!"

root = Tk()
root.style = Style()
#('clam', 'alt', 'default', 'classic')
root.style.theme_use("clam")

app = App(root)
root.mainloop()

Result:

OS X uses precompiled theme "aqua" so widgets are looking better.

Also Ttk widgets do not support all option which pure Tkinter does.