Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment:
This is definitely not an IDLE issue. To open files, IDLE calls
tkinter.filedialog.Open(parent, filetypes).show(initial_dir, initial_file).
Open is a subclass of filedialog._Dialog(commondialog.Dialog). It sets command
= "tk_getOpenFile". Dialog.show calls the command with root.tk.call after
fixing passed in options. It then fixes the result and returns it. I believe
this command calls the native file dialog. Since tkinter's option processing,
converting python object to strings suitable for tk.call, is OS independent, I
presume the problem is in tk_getOpenFile. I suspect tcl/tk developers have
trouble keeping up with the parade linuxes and window managers. (What is a
'DE?)
If so, this should be closed as 3rd party. If you want to test first, bypass
IDLE and most of tkinter with the following, run directly in Python.
>>> import tkinter as tk
>>> r = tk.Tk()
>>> r.tk.call("tk_getOpenFile") # select codecontext.py, hit 'Open'
'C:/Programs/Python38/Lib/idlelib/codecontext.py'
>>> r.tk.call("tk_getOpenFile") # hit 'Cancel'
''
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assignee: terry.reedy ->
components: +Tkinter -IDLE
nosy: +serhiy.storchaka
title: IDLE: File names are hidden in "Open" menu (Linux) -> IDLE/Tkinter: File
names are hidden in "Open" menu (Linux)
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