[MACTCL] Pinstripe background patches

[Adrian R. <adr...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm attempting to put together a commercial Tk app delivered on the
Mac and am trying for a finished, native look.  What is the status of
the "pinstripe and button patch" here:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=312997&aid=1170803&group_id=12997

It looks like it was going to go into the core but then got dropped?
I tried applying it to the latest 8.5a5 release and most of it
applied, except for the two major files, which had 40K of rejections
each.

I tried using the tile/ttk support but it is currently too
impoverished for my needs -- I need to be able to set fonts on menus
and buttons, display scales on sliders, etc..  All of which both the
OS and the mainline TkAqua is capable of.  Also, I'm unclear of the
goal of tile/ttk: it seems like an add-on to do something Tk already
does with its separate native implementations on each window system;
is it mainly to support "themability" trends on linux?

thanks,
Adrian