[Idle-dev] my work plans

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/13/2015 2:21 PM, Mark Roseman wrote:

>    * (patch done) centralize creation of ui components in a new ‘uifactory’ module. This is now used by about/prefs (#24760), and soon others. This module will also be in charge of choosing to use ‘ttk’ or ‘non-ttk’ based components (#24759)

Because menu creation is mostly 'data' driven, with a hierarchical 
structure, it will be relatively easy to collect and translate the 
strings in the menu ('File', 'Open', etc) for i18n without wrapping each 
literal string with _(...).  If other UIs were similarly data driven, 
rather than code-driven as now, i18n for other UIs would be similarly 
easy.  So I am curious as to your approach.

>    * menu handling, in particular enabling/disabling items according to app state (#24814 etc.)

I think most of the features currently implemented as 'optional 
extensions' should be incorporated as always present features and the 
disable option removed.  Their menu entries would then be moved into the 
main menudefs in bindings.py.  If it becomes easy to disable or even 
remove menu entries for disabled features, then we could move *all* main 
menu menudefs into bindings.menudefs.

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Terry Jan Reedy