New submission from Raymond Hettinger: A recurring issue with students using IDLE is the user interface for the fonts and tabs preference settings.
* The default setting of 4 space tabs is a good default, but the giant slider cries out to be moved (usually when people are intending to increase their font size). A slider was not a good choice. It should use something like what is currently used for font size. * On the other hand, the font size would benefit from have a slider. * I don't know if anything can be done to improve the selection of the font face. The scrolling menu of choices worked great back when we only had a handful of choices but it had grown problematic with a large number of choices. It is a bit of a struggle to select Menlo on a Mac if you already know what you want. ---------- assignee: terry.reedy components: IDLE messages: 247829 nosy: rhettinger, terry.reedy priority: low severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Improve Fonts/Tabs UX for IDLE type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24776> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
