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Mon Jul 12 14:22:00 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/101775.html

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:12:10 -0400
"Kurt B. Kaiser" <kbk at shore.net> wrote:
> >
> > Ok, I've just tried IDLE (on py3k) for the first time in years. Under
> > Linux, the look is ugly and outdated; it uses some kind of Motif-like
> > widgets.
> 
> That's because Linux isn't using Tk 8.5 yet.  Debian defaults to Tk 8.5
> in experimental since March.  Most Linux is Tk 8.4.

No, that's wrong. Tk here is 8.6:

$ ldd build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/_tkinter.so 
[...]
	libtk8.6.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libtk8.6.so.0 (0x00007f4eb9259000)
	libtcl8.6.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libtcl8.6.so.0 (0x00007f4eb8f07000)
[...]

$ ./python -c "import tkinter; print(tkinter.TkVersion)"
8.6

> > the file open dialog is antiquated and doesn't allow me to use
> > keyboard shortcuts).
> 
> Looks much better in 8.5 and the shortcuts work.
> 
> http://images.rant.ml1.net/idle2.gif

Well, this is a Windows screenshot. I'm under Linux.

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