| msg29066 - (view) |
Author: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) *  |
Date: 2006-07-06 08:29 |
| The default values in config-main.def contain values that are specific for Windows. This means that the key-bindings for other platforms, such as OSX will be wrong (because config-main selects the windows keybindings as the default keybindings). I've worked around this by copying a mac version of config-main.def over the installed version of config-main.def from Mac/IDLE/Makefile.in. That is obviously a crude hack, but I know of no better solution. |
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| msg29067 - (view) |
Author: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk) * |
Date: 2006-07-17 18:46 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=149084 Not so crude, since there is a Mac/IDLE/ dir? I gather this works ok for 2.5 installs on OSX? Perhaps IDLE should be modified to try to detect the platform and only use the entry in config-main.def if detection fails. The [keys] section is necessary, I believe, to mirror the [keys] section in the user's config-main.cfg if he changes keybindings. But you would still need Mac/IDLE/, would you not? |
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| msg29068 - (view) |
Author: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) * |
Date: 2006-07-18 12:34 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=580910 Mac/IDLE contains support code for building and installing an application bundle for IDLE, which gives us a nice icon to click on :-) Detecting the platform and automaticly using platform-specific settings would be nice and would mostly solve my problem. "Mostly" because config- extensions.def also contains key-binding definitions; which could well be platform-specific (AquaTk doesn't seem to support the ALT modifier). IMHO the current workaround is crude because I maintain a seperate copy of several configuration files just to change a small number of settings. I have lowered the priority of this issue because I don't think this is very important. |
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| msg84287 - (view) |
Author: Guilherme Polo (gpolo) * |
Date: 2009-03-27 23:29 |
| For config-extensions.def: What do you think about moving all shortcuts to config-keys and then always use the name of the shorcut in config-extensions instead of the shorcut ? For config-main.def: For the [Keys] section I believe it would be better to rename the "default" option to "custom". If custom is true, then idle uses the key set defined by the name option, otherwise it uses the one that fits better the platform. If the user changes the key set that supposedly fits better his platform through the "Configure IDLE" dialog then we set custom to True (independently of this new key set being a custom one or a default one but that is not the default for his platform) and set the name option to the name of the key set. Any thoughts ? |
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| msg220124 - (view) |
Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) * |
Date: 2014-06-09 22:47 |
| In 3.4, the only Windows-specific settings I see in config-main.def is [Keys] default= 1 name= IDLE Classic Windows I have presumed that this is somehow changed on other systems. If not, that is an issue. Config-keys.def actions (should) have a Meta variant when Alt is used. close-window= If 'Alt' were automatically changed to 'Meta' on Mac, before sending to tk, the Meta entries could be removed, with a note in the key-setting dialog about the auto translation. The file would be easier to read; setting keys would then be easier; and Macs would automatically get key bindings. (I notice that some actions have two Alt bindings and only one Meta binding. Is that because Meta in not value for all uses of Alt?) |
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| msg220127 - (view) |
Author: Ned Deily (ned.deily) * |
Date: 2014-06-09 23:19 |
| Issue20580 covers much the same grounds; I was unaware of this issue when I opened it. |
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| msg220132 - (view) |
Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) * |
Date: 2014-06-10 00:27 |
| Since #20580 has a much more specific plan, I am closing this one as a duplicate and back-referencing this from there. |
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