[issue17397] ttk::themes missing from ttk.py

[klappnase]

klappnase added the comment:

> Are 'unloaded but available' themes really available to use?

Yes.

> Does Style.theme_use(available_name) work?

Yes.

> If so, it seems to me that available_name should
> be reported by theme_names.

I agree, one should think so. I am not 100% certain about that, but to me it seems that on the tcl side ttk:themes is newer and thus preferable to theme names which maybe is only still there for backwards compatibility.

Since as a Tkinter user I like Tkinter methods to behave like their Tcl/Tk counterparts (which, if nothing else, helps a lot in reading and understanding  tcl code/documentation (and possibly "translating" tcl code into Python)) I had rather kept theme_names() intact to avoid confusion. Maybe there could simply a line like "Deprecated since Python-xy, use themes() instead." be added to theme_names' doc string ?

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