[R-SIG-Mac] Using the Aqua Tcl/Tk theme by default on Mac OS

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:

> Le vendredi 23 septembre 2011 à 10:01 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit :
>> That theme is only available in Mac builds of Tk, not X11 ones.
> Ah, I see. Sad. :-/
>
>> You can build R for yourself to use Mac Tcl/Tk (I tend to use the
>> ActiveTcl distribution), and then the Mac theme is the default.  But
>> you will then need to use command-line R and not R.app (which is quite
>> sensible if you are using Rcmdr as your console).
> Indeed, it would make sense, but care more about users than about my own
> setup (I'm on Linux anyway), and building a custom R isn't really an
> option there.

Why not?  It's easy on Mac OS X (as easy as on Linux).

>> (If you do build against Mac Tcl/Tk and run R.app, R.app and Tk fight
>> over the menu line.)
> Isn't that something that can be fixed? Maybe Tk shouldn't try to
> control the menu bar if no Tk GUI is trying to create menus? I can file
> a bug in their bug tracker if that would be a solution.

You are welcome to contribute a fix.  Simon will no doubt chip in with 
more details.

> Thanks for your reply
>

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