IDLE: dark mode on windows?

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Hi there, i hope you can help me and this is the right address, i tried mailing 
idle-...@python.org but it bounced, please forward if possible,

ive got IDLE 3.7.9 on windows 10, and windows 10 is set to dark mode, but all 
windows by IDLE are bright as a painful light, is there any way to make it all 
like dark mode?

i managed to switch the console/edit area to dark mode using the attatched 
hack, but that looks even worse cause now title, menu/scroll and status bar are 
bright and only the center edit is dark, a bit better then before but not as 
nice as i want. I know from expirences using tk based software under linux that 
it is possible to get something like dark mode, i dont know how exactly i did 
it but i guess it was not that hard, probably some color changes in the desktop 
enviorment that not only changed gtk's and qt's behavior but also tk's or some 
other stuff like that thing that makes xterm switch to dark mode...

But under windows i would like that it , in an ideal case, just acts based on 
the global setting introduced since windows 10, maybe implement that in coming 
versions...

Or is there any other way to hack this by putting some tk config files 
somewhere.

i would aprichiate any help on that.

thanks a lot in advance,

Tim from Hamburg
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WG: dont use C:\Windows as working directory when installed using microsoft store

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Von: T N
Gesendet: Samstag, 17. Mai 2025 04:33
An: idle-...@python.org
Betreff: dont use C:\Windows as working directory when installed using 
microsoft store

Hi,

ive installed python with IDLE using the microsoft store, but one big issue 
with it:

whenever i try to save a new file it prompts me to put it in C:\Windows\ which 
is not a good idea, %userprofile% or %userprofile%\Documents\ would be more 
appropriate. Normally i just change the value of "start in" on the .lnk in the 
start menu but in case of an app this is not possible

so please fix that

Thanks a lot in advance and keep up the good work

TN
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