Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
The resolution of this issue should be to properly document the Tk class. The
3.4 docs currently say:
"class tkinter.Tk(screenName=None, baseName=None, className='Tk', useTk=1)
The Tk class is instantiated without arguments. This creates a toplevel
widget of Tk which usually is the main window of an application. Each instance
has its own associated Tcl interpreter."
The signature is incomplete -- see below. The first sentence is wrong; there
are arguments, they just all happen to have defaults. The next sentence should
be something like "Return a toplevel Tk widget, which is usually the main
window of an application."
Tk.__doc__ is 'Toplevel widget of Tk which represents mostly the main window\n
of an application. It has an associated Tcl interpreter.' This is probably
ok.
Tk.__init__ signature and Tk,__init__.__doc__ are
__init__(self, screenName=None, baseName=None, className='Tk', useTk=1, sync=0,
use=None)
"Return a new Toplevel widget on screen SCREENNAME. A new Tcl interpreter will
be created. BASENAME will be used for the identification of the profile file
(see
readprofile).
It is constructed from sys.argv[0] without extensions if None is given.
CLASSNAME
is the name of the widget class."
"Toplevel" should be "toplevel" as in : Tk is not a subclass of Toplevel.
Rather Toplevel is similar to Tk but with the BaseWidget signature.
The argument list needs to be completed and perhaps a bit more said about the
one documented. Does 'screen' apply to anything other than X11? Could it be
used on Windows to put the window on a secondary screen? Is Gnome the only user
framework that uses classname?
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assignee: -> docs@python
components: +Documentation
nosy: +docs@python, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy
stage: -> needs patch
title: Tkinter doesn't set proper application name in Gnome Shell -> Tkinter Tk
args and Gnome Shell application name
versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 -Python 3.2
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