On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Ron Adam <r...@ronadam.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 07/24/2010 05:37 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
..
>> - leave the "-g" option alone (including the tk gui), but make sure
>> other options still work when tk is unavailable
>
> I was hoping it would be ok to drop the tk gui in pydoc. Keeping it
> requires rewriting the tk gui interface to use the new server because the
> server code and the gui code are not cleanly separate. I can do this if
> it's really wanted. (Nothing against tKinter, I use it for my own gui apps.)
>
FWIW, I am +1 on dropping tkinter interface. Tkinter window looks
foreign next to browser and server-side GUI that opens a new client
window with each search topic does not strike me as most usable
design. Furthermore, I just tried to use it on my OSX laptop and it
crashed after I searched for pydoc and clicked on the first entry.
(Another issue is that search window pops under the terminal window.)
I think Tkinter interface to pydoc may make sense in IDLE, but not in
the main pydoc GUI. If the equivalent functionality is available in
the browser (preferably in the style familiar to docs.python.org
users, I don't see why we need to keep old GUI and hide new behind a
new option.
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