[issue42831] IDLE fix colours for MacOS dark mode

Change by Tal Einat : -- keywords: +easy, newcomer friendly stage: -> needs patch type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue42831] IDLE fix colours for MacOS dark mode

E. Paine added the comment: I have also done a grep and believe the other affected parts from the user's perspective are the debugger (I haven't checked if Mark's version also suffers), the help dialog and hover tip (e.g. over the squeezer button). > Would it work to just remove those

[issue42831] IDLE fix colours for MacOS dark mode

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This might be related to #7949, about KDE/GTK dark themes. In general, IDLE only controls colors for Shell and editor windows, leaving dialogs to system default. This appears to be true for the settings and search dialogs. 'About' is unusual in having some

[issue42831] IDLE fix colours for MacOS dark mode

New submission from E. Paine : Currently IDLE, in some places, uses predefined colours which assume it is in light mode. However, on the new Universal2 installers (I tested using 3.10.0a4) this causes issues, where this can no longer be assumed. Taking the "About IDLE" dialogue as an