Hi!
>> This way of migrating to Tk 8.5 is not feasible.
Why? One could first adopt the easy parts. If I follow you
it means touching almost every UI part to move to the new
widgets. This will take some time, I guess.
>> Note that Tcl/Tk 8.5 does not only bring fancier
>> scrollbars but widgets like notebook or sizegrip that can
>> benefit to Scid.
I saw that and generally I'm really for going to 8.5. Its
just a feeling that it is a bit to early for the general
community as there're only very few and very recent
distributions that come equipped with 8.5. Due to the
incompatiblity of 8.4 and 8.5 I suspect more trouble than
help from an to early migration.
>> Most critics to Scid are related to its UI, so certainly
>> one of the most important field to consider. I recently
>> changed some of the UI of Scid Pocket, taking advantage
>> of Tcl/Tk 8.5 and the changes makes Scid really nicer and
>> even easier to use.
>
> One more idea: can we just provide Scid package for Linux
> containing Tcl 8.5 for those who cannot install it
> separately?
I do not think this is a good idea. In this case it would be
better to add some script to the installer that fetches
Tcl/Tk and installs it. But even this I'd not consider a
good solution due to probable clashes with an existing
installation.
(Put to the extrem, just to mark the point: we could also
deliver a Life-DVD containing Linux with a whole Gnome
desktop and a launcher in the middle for running scid ;)
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