Tukaan
What is Tukaan?
Tukaan is a GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk. Yeah, that’s the same thing that powers Tkinter, but don’t worry, Tukaan is far not as bad as Tkinter.
It is designed to be a modern and pythonic framework that provides everything you need in a GUI application, without having to install all sorts of third-party extensions to accomplish a basic task.
🔶 Tukaan is powerful
With Tukaan you can build whatever you want. It includes a wide variety of widgets, from basic things like tooltips to advanced megawidgets, dozens of options for integration with the operating system, and a bunch of other things that make creating an application even more convenient.
🔶 Tukaan is modern
Tukaan does not try to mimic the look and feel of Motif or Windows 95. You can create interfaces that look native on Windows, macOS and GNOME, or theme it however you like, so the users might actually want to use it. Unlike Tkinter, it has most of the features you expect from a GUI toolkit in the 21st century. No need to spend hours browsing random forums to figure out how to load a custom font file, such basic things are built in already!
🔶 Tukaan is intuitive
Tukaan is pythonic and intuitive, so you don’t necessarily have to look up the documentation every time, you can figure it out for yourself. However, keep in mind that it is not recommended for complete beginners. You need some knowledge of Python, and some sort of experience in GUI programming can also come handy, although that’s not required.
Installing Tukaan
You can easily install Tukaan using pip. Just run the following command in your terminal:
pip install tukaan
The installer will check all dependencies and warn you if you need to do anything extra. On Linux, you may have to install some Python packages using the distribution’s package manager.
Now if everything went well, we can move on. Let’s look at a “Hello world” example.