If you dislike vanilla appearance of Pd on Linux as much as I do, please try the pd.tk file I sent out sometime last week on this list and report any bugs. Hans has pointed a few that affect other platforms (this one was designed to provide minimal changes while making GUI more 21st century and without affecting Windows or OSX, apart from the few reported bugs) but other than that it appears rock solid here. Bear in mind that it does require tcl/tk 8.5 with antialiasing enabled.
I'm trying to try it... Downloaded http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/attachments/20090904/4c8114df/a ttachment-0001.tk Now is there another way than putting it where my pd install is? Right now it doesn't seem to find pd. Thanks, Andras
You should rename that into pd.tk and then copy it into the Pds bin directory (e.g. /usr/lib/pd/bin/ or /usr/local/lib/pd/bin/). You should also back-up the old version of pd.tk that resides in those folders before overwriting it in case you end-up not liking this version.
Hope this helps!
Best wishes,
Ico