[issue37693] IDLE/Tkinter: File names are hidden in "Open" menu (Linux)

Kyle Stanley added the comment: > What is a 'DE'? DE stands for Desktop Environment, usually they come with a number of packages (mainly GUI) such as window managers, login managers, toolbars, theming, etc. Some of the popular ones include Gnome, Plasma, Mate and LXDE. Usually anything

[issue37693] IDLE/Tkinter: File names are hidden in "Open" menu (Linux)

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +14750 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/14983 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37693] IDLE/Tkinter: File names are hidden in "Open" menu (Linux)

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This is definitely not an IDLE issue. To open files, IDLE calls tkinter.filedialog.Open(parent, filetypes).show(initial_dir, initial_file). Open is a subclass of filedialog._Dialog(commondialog.Dialog). It sets command = "tk_getOpenFile". Dialog.show