On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > STEPS TO REPRODUCE BUG 1: "Attack of the clones!" > > 1. Open the IDLE application > 2. Maximize the window that appears > 3. Go to the "File Menu" and choose the "Open" command > > Now repeat step 3 at least one more time, but feel free to > keep opening new dialogs until your fingers bleed and/or > eyes pop out. > > Okay, now tell us, in what manner can an "interface bug" > like this be "beneficial"?
You call it a bug because you can't think of any way it could be beneficial. That's the wrong way of looking at it. Something isn't a bug because you find it annoying; it's a bug because it fails to implement the programmer's intentions and/or the docs/specification. Opening multiple dialogs is *often* useful. The extras don't conflict, and you can open multiple files, so why should it be prevented? > STEPS TO REPRODUCE BUG 2: "Hide and go seek!" > > 1. Open the IDLE application > 2. Maximize the window that appears > 3. Go to the "File Menu" and choose the "Open" command > 4. Without disturbing the dialog, minimize the main window > 5. Using the taskbar icon, maximize the window > > Where is the dialog? How will you retrieve it *WITHOUT* > reducing the size of the window? And even if you are smart > enough to "intuit" what happened to the dialog, and how to > retrieve it, how will a noobie "intuit" such a disappearing > act? And how in the hell can this be beneficial? I'm not sure what platform you're on, and this depends a lot on your window manager. I'm guessing you may be on Windows, as Linux people are more likely to be aware of what DE/WM they use, so I tried it out on Windows. The file dialog appears in the alt-tab list, which seems perfectly sane and sensible, and in fact alt-tab is the most logical way to move between maximized windows anyway. This is not an Idle bug at all. It's a window manager issue. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
