[Python-Dev] [Idle-dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library (original) (raw)

Tal Einat taleinat at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 17:14:16 CEST 2010

Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:

Using Tkinter is a major reason that maintaining and further developing IDLE is difficult. For example, it took me many hours just to get a working Tkinter scrolled frame widget, having had to write it from scratch and struggle with the under-documented Canvas widget. Another example is that integration of the new ttk (a.k.a. Tile) widget set, which supports native look&feel on various platforms and adds modern widgets, has still not been integrated despite being available in Tk for years and despite considerable effort being invested into it. Tal, you've got some catching up to do, yourself. Tile went into Tk in 8.5, two years ago.

I was referring to the integration of the new ttk widgets into IDLE, which still hasn't happened despite two years having gone by.

Sorry for not being clear on that point.

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