On Mon, Jul 12 2010, Neil Hodgson wrote: > On the main editing screen of IDLE, the most noticeable issue is > that there is no horizontal scroll bar even though the text will move > left when you move the caret beyond the rightmost visible character.
That was a design decision by Guido to encourage keeping to 80 columns. > The scrollbar and status bar have an appearance that looks to be from > Windows 2000, not Windows XP Tk issue, maybe we can address it with theming. > and there is no resizing gripper on the right side of the status > bar. Although the corner can be dragged, that would be useful. As I recollect, we special-cased it so there is a space for the Mac gripper! > The tear off menus are ugly as well as being non-standard on all three > major platforms. Well, would you discard them? They can (occasionally) be useful. > Use the "Configure IDLE..." and an "idle" dialog appears that also > looks to be from Windows 2000. I know Tk can do better than this as > Git Gui (the Tk (8.5.8) program I use most often) at least shows XP > themed buttons, scrollbars and other controls. However, the "idle" > dialog (as well as Git Gui) shows the largest remaining problem for Tk > user interfaces: keyboard navigation. When the "idle" dialog opens, > try doing anything with the keyboard. Chances are nothing will happen. > If you press Tab 16 times (yes, 16!) a focus rectangle will finally > show on the "Bold" check box. Another Tab takes you to the > "Indentation Width" slider. After that you don't see the focus until > it wraps around to "Bold" again. The Enter key doesn't trigger OK and > the Escape key doesn't let you escape. > > The Find and Replace dialogs are better as focus works as do Enter > and Escape but none of the buttons have mnemonics. > > This may all sound like picking nits but details and consistency > are important in user interfaces and this is just looking at the most > easily discovered problems. No, these are worthwhile improvements, and not too difficult. -- Thanks, KBK _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
