[issue7949] IDLE: problems with dark GTK or KDE color schemes

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Use of ttk got delayed for back-compatibility issues. We should be clear to start in a week. -- versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker _

[issue7949] IDLE: problems with dark GTK or KDE color schemes

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Problem as I understand it: various tk widgets and Idle popups and dialogs mix, for instance, a hard-coded background (white) with a sometimes incompatible (no or low contrast) system-default foreground, which is also white when the system background is black.

[issue7949] IDLE: problems with dark GTK or KDE color schemes

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: #16984 is closed as a duplicate of this. The screenshot helps. I was just thinking about adding a retro-black color theme to match the current old-is-new fashion. It appears that this would solve the Text part of the problem but Mathias' patch summary shows

[issue7949] IDLE: problems with dark GTK or KDE color schemes

Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list ma

[issue7949] IDLE: problems with dark GTK or KDE color schemes

Roger Serwy added the comment: Updated the issue to reflect information from 16984. A screenshot was provided in that report. -- nosy: +sahin, serwy title: idle does not handle dark gtk color schemes -> IDLE: problems with dark GTK or KDE color schemes versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1