| msg189937 - (view) |
Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) *  |
Date: 2013-05-24 23:21 |
| Windows 7 (32 bit?), 32 bit IDLE 3.3.2: When I start from the start menu, the taskbar icon is the red Tk icon instead of the IDLE icon. If I try to pin the Tk icon to the task bar, a useless pythonw icon is pinned instead. The Tk icon goes when the program is closed. After multiple open and frequent program deletions, Idle shows up on the Start/frequent programs list with it normal Idle icon (White page + snake). (I had 3.3.1 before working fine. The 3.3.2 upgrade did not work (tkinter would not import, so I redownloaded, deleted Python 3.3.2, and reinstalled, getting the behavior above.) I have seen the Tk icon before after fresh installs, but on other machines, and it was replaced after the first open with the correct icon. |
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| msg190116 - (view) |
Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) * |
Date: 2013-05-26 21:05 |
| Restarting Windows solves the issue. If nothing else, the installer could end with 'Restart Windows for Idle icons to work correctly'. |
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| msg190269 - (view) |
Author: Roger Serwy (roger.serwy) * |
Date: 2013-05-29 03:53 |
| For me, 3.3.2 32-bit won't pin to the taskbar, but 3.3.1 can. Running lnk-parser on the .lnk files for IDLE reveal no obvious differences. |
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| msg190276 - (view) |
Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * |
Date: 2013-05-29 07:23 |
| I can't reproduce the issue it all; IDLE just readily pins to the task bar with the correct icon. Can somebody please provide exact steps to reproduce? |
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| msg190280 - (view) |
Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) * |
Date: 2013-05-29 09:39 |
| All I did was install (standard, all users) and start Idle without rebooting. Problem goes away after reboot. This happened on previous versions with different hardware. |
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| msg190338 - (view) |
Author: Roger Serwy (roger.serwy) * |
Date: 2013-05-30 05:35 |
| I'm running Win7 64-bit in a VM. The steps for me was to start with a system without any Python version installed. Install 3.3.1 32-bit, and then install 3.3.2 32-bit. IDLE launches with a red Tk icon and pinning it to the task bar does not actually pin IDLE. A reboot does fix the issue, as Terry observed. |
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| msg190377 - (view) |
Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * |
Date: 2013-05-30 18:49 |
| I can now reproduce it, and asked on SO (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16843727/) |
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| msg212319 - (view) |
Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) * |
Date: 2014-02-26 22:52 |
| The last installation I did now said to reboot to finish the installation, but I forget which it was. Since that was my alternative fix, this could perhaps be closed. I will try to check the coming installs. |
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| msg228272 - (view) |
Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) * |
Date: 2014-10-02 22:33 |
| Steve, would it possible for the installer to tell users to Restart to get (Idle) icons working properly? (Assuming that this cannot be made unnecessary.) |
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| msg228279 - (view) |
Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) * |
Date: 2014-10-02 23:27 |
| This is probably because the program items are advertised. I have 2.7 and 3.3 installed, and when I pin the 3.3 Idle it switches to the 2.7 one. I guess there's a GUID somewhere that makes the two icons identical, but I don't know where that would be. This probably causes the icon cache issue (which I also see with 3.3.1->3.3.2). The 3.5 installer will not use advertised shortcuts, so they'll be direct links to the exact version of the launch script. This should cut out a whole range of conflicts between different installs. In any case, suggesting a reboot just for an icon is not a great look. It's bad enough that we require admin privileges for a per-user install (also on my list...). Hopefully the change to non-advertised shortcuts will fix it, but otherwise it probably doesn't need more than a note on the last page of the installer (which nobody ever reads, but short of forcing unnecessary reboots there's not much we can do about that). |
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| msg228291 - (view) |
Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) * |
Date: 2014-10-03 01:56 |
| Thanks for the reply. I am assuming that you do not need this open as a reminder. So I will close it and wait for 3.5. |
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