FS#9517 - tk 8.5 upgrade breaks some tkinter text widgets in IDLE and other apps

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by David Scholl (djscholl) - Sunday, 10 February 2008, 20:55 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 21:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The recent upgrade to tk 8.5.0 (and associated python package upgrade) has broken some tkinter text widgets.

Selection of text in idle no longer works.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1851526&group_id=12997&atid=112997

The leo AUR package is unuseable, due to problems related to text-cursor location.
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1929855&forum_id=10227

I don't believe that there is anything Arch-specific here, except that Arch is an early adopter of the tk 8.5.0 update. However, Arch users may want to check other tkinter apps that use a text cursor.

Steps to reproduce:
Run idle and attempt to select/highlight text with the mouse; nothing happens.
Run leo and attempt to type into the body text pane; each letter appears twice.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 21:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by David Scholl (djscholl) - Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 12:19 GMT
A relevant thread on the python-dev mailing list can be found here:
http://www.nabble.com/Tkinter-problems-with-Tcl-Tk-8.5-tt14360516.html#a14570289

The python dev has fixed several tkinter problems in python version control, slated for python 2.6. The fixes appear to include both problems listed above. He doesn't intend to back-port the fixes, so he recommends staying with tk 8.4 while using python 2.5.

Would Arch consider reverting the tk 8.5 upgrade back to 8.4, until python 2.6 is adopted?

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