[Idle-dev] Remove Idle version from About dialog

[Al Sweigart]

I kind of think the About IDLE box should be much more drastically changed:

1) Make it smaller, without the different color background and font.
2) Make the documentation link clickable and use webbrowser to open the URL.
3) Get rid of those horizontal rules.
4) Instead of opening a new text window for the "License",
"Copyright", etc. buttons, just print that text to the interactive
shell window.

Basically, it just needs to be more conventional and simplified. I can
open an issue with these and probably get around to making a patch
next week (though there are other things I'm looking into right now.)

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> Help -> About IDLE displays a dialog box that contains, among other things,
> "Python version: m.n.p" and "IDLE version: m.n.p". Several years ago, the
> Idle version was different from the Python version, but that ended over 5
> years ago.
>
> I think 'IDLE version' should be removed.  It implies that there is
> something distinct from 'Python version', but currently there is not. Any
> opinions?
>
> https://bugs.python.org/issue24199
> includes this proposal, but it is more about deleting idlelib/idlever.py,
> which is not needed in anycase.
>
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> Terry Jan Reedy
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