I have written a set of wrappers for "bwidget". bwidget is a collection of enhanced widgets written in pure TCL, from a tweaked Button widget to a snazzy-looking NoteBook (tabset) widget.

The bwidget wrappers, which include a copy of BWidget 1.7.0, can be found at http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/bwidget/ and a copy of the bwidget documentation (written for people writing tcl) is nearby: http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/bwidget/BWman/

As the README says: Please report your experiences, good or bad, on the Tkinter mailing list

pybwidget is written on Fedora Core 2 with Python 2.3 and Tk 8.4, but may work on other releases of Python.

I'm aware that Fredrik Lundh has given this a try too (http://effbot.org/zone/bwidgets.htm) but I never looked at his work before starting on this, so I don't know how they compare.

CLASSES BWidget ArrowButton(BWidget, Tkinter.Button) Button(BWidget, Tkinter.Button) ButtonBox(BWidget, _Items, Tkinter.Frame) Dialog(ButtonBox, Tkinter.BaseWidget, _Frame) MessageDialog PasswordDialog ProgressDialog SelectColor SelectFont Entry(BWidget, Tkinter.Entry) ComboBox LabelEntry SpinBox Label(BWidget, Tkinter.Label) LabelFrame(BWidget, _Frame, Tkinter.Widget) ListBox(BWidget, Tkinter.Widget, _Items) MainFrame(BWidget, _Frame, Tkinter.Widget) PagesManager(BWidget, Tkinter.Frame) NoteBook(PagesManager, _Items) PanedWindow(BWidget, Tkinter.Frame) PanelFrame(BWidget, Tkinter.Frame) ProgressBar(BWidget, Tkinter.Widget) ScrollView(BWidget, Tkinter.Widget) ScrollableFrame(BWidget, _Frame, Tkinter.Frame) ScrolledWindow(BWidget, _Frame, Tkinter.Frame) Separator(BWidget, Tkinter.Widget) StatusBar TitleFrame(BWidget, _Frame, Tkinter.Frame) Tree(BWidget, Tkinter.Widget, _Items)