2010/7/10 Kevin Walzer <k...@codebykevin.com>: > > 3. One issue that would greatly help IDLE would be to integrate the new > themed ttk widgets--has this happened in Python 2.7 or 3.1? >
I did that some two years ago, either on a separated branch or a separated repo (don't remember right now). I believe it was mostly just to show how IDLE would look like with it, but it was also extended to use tabs instead of separated windows (except for shell and edit windows, I think -- memory failing). Anyway, I don't think it will be easy to repatch the current IDLE using this previous patch (especially because there is only a single patch with all the changes) but the visual result can be seen at the first screenshot here: http://code.google.com/p/python-ttk/wiki/Screenshots. Maybe what is actually important is providing better usability than just giving a prettier UI, but this tends to involve discussion and there isn't enough people interested on discussing it. Things like not needing to save a file before running or making the help window non-modal have been done and in my opinion both improve usability but there isn't a huge interesting on having them. Maybe people don't care about these things at all, or maybe the people that care don't even know they can file a bug report. So .. (finally) .. updating IDLE to use ttk widgets when available might cause two things (as I see it): several new minor bugs and consequently getting more involvement of the current developers on improving the IDE; or, several new minor bugs followed by reverting to the previous version. At this point I'm not sure that doing this update is going to help IDLE. -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list IDLE-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
