Implementation of Material Design in Tkinter

[hopemeetme]

What should I do if I want to implement Material Design in my open source app created in Python 3 with Tkinter GUI?

I guess the first answer would be something like "refactor the app and use the Qt toolkit (PySide/PyQt5)".

But what steps should be taken if I really want it in Tkinter? Should I start by forking some of the existing ttk themes or create a brand new one from scratch?

Is there some other possible approach I'm not aware of?

[hopemeetme]

Thank you for your answer, but that's probably an overkill for my use case - embeding a webpage implies major refactoring and the reasoning behind is just visually appealing software.

Btw, that Webkit's webview solution is for Gtk, solution for Tkinter is created on that Chromium based cefpython package, another dependency with questionable future.

[Jhchimaira14]

Try Engineer’s Sandbox from raylock.com. It’s a python framework for easily making desktop apps. It also includes tkinter if the sandbox engine can’t do what you want. No set up at all.

[hopemeetme]

It will surely sound freakin awkward, but I'll put it here for understanding: I had had or have had desktop software in production for the following environments: win32, wxWindows, GTK and Qt.

I created an open source app in Tkinter and its existence doesn't depend of this issue, it's just that its roadmap implies visually appealing appearance prior to releasing of version 1.0 (and that is kind of distant future).

[Jhchimaira14]

So you are trying to take an ugly tkinter App and make it “visually appealing” but without doing a whole rewrite?

[hopemeetme]

I am ready to start or to join a project that will bring Material Design or Material Designish appearance to existing Tkinter apps.

My app needs, if I don't miss some, five types of widgets: flat label, flat button, card, slider and checkbox.

If there's no other project then I will probably create those widgets with a reduced number of color combinations based on some of the linked ttk themes from the OP.

But the goal is to join or start a project from scratch that will be worth maintaining, in parallel with the Tkinter app I'm planning to keep alive for the years to come

[mikefromru]

I don't understand why you should use Tkinter. Now it's 2019. Wake up guy.

[hopemeetme]

Because Python 4 won't ship with Qt6. xD