#2709 followup: better description of Tk's pros and cons.

diff --git a/Doc/library/othergui.rst b/Doc/library/othergui.rst
index ab4efdb3b54af98afb8e6dcfbd6ab300c5028d58..2d4ea3729ad30f76ee1bd84db2e26c2c13e3c1ef 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/othergui.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/othergui.rst
@@ -69,10 +69,9 @@ also available for Python:
       <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932394621>`_, by Noel Rappin and
       Robin Dunn.
 
-PyGTK, PyQt, and wxPython, all have a modern look and feel and far more
-widgets and better documentation than Tkinter. In addition,
-there are many other GUI toolkits for Python, both cross-platform, and
-platform-specific. See the `GUI Programming
+PyGTK, PyQt, and wxPython, all have a modern look and feel and more
+widgets than Tkinter. In addition, there are many other GUI toolkits for 
+Python, both cross-platform, and platform-specific. See the `GUI Programming
 <http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming>`_ page in the Python Wiki for a
 much more complete list, and also for links to documents where the
 different GUI toolkits are compared.

diff --git a/Doc/library/tk.rst b/Doc/library/tk.rst
index 8451f6d5e032a4361aff1111a1b230868411ae2d..944687bb02c31f3356858a78987053a2d0b04a20 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/tk.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tk.rst
@@ -22,11 +22,12 @@ classes.  In addition, the internal module :mod:`_tkinter` provides a threadsafe
 mechanism which allows Python and Tcl to interact.
 
 :mod:`Tkinter`'s chief virtues are that it is fast, and that it usually comes
-bundled with Python. Although it has been used to create some very good
-applications, including IDLE, its standard documentation is weak (but there
-are some good books and tutorials), and it has an outdated look and
-feel. For more modern, better documented, and much more extensive GUI
-libraries, see the :ref:`other-gui-packages` section.
+bundled with Python. Although its standard documentation is weak, good 
+material is available, which includes: references, tutorials, a book and 
+others. :mod:`Tkinter` is also famous for having an outdated look and feel, 
+which has been vastly improved in Tk 8.5. Nevertheless, there are many other 
+GUI libraries that you could be interested in. For more information about 
+alternatives, see the :ref:`other-gui-packages` section.
 
 .. toctree::