[issue43236] Windows IDLE taskbar icon jump list fails to open recent files

Ned Deily added the comment: > Ned, do you have any comments, pro or con, about doing so. I don't think there is a conflict here and I don't really have an opinion as I don't use Windows regularly. From a bit of web research, it looks like the closest thing to Windows jump lists on macOS are

[issue43236] Windows IDLE taskbar icon jump list fails to open recent files

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Eryk, thank you for the research. Our macOS installer already adds an 'idlex.y' executable. Ned, do you have any comments, pro or con, about doing so. (I worry a bit about reinforcing the beginner delusion that IDLE is Python or that IDLE executes Python

[issue43236] Windows IDLE taskbar icon jump list fails to open recent files

Eryk Sun added the comment: The IDLE shortcut that's installed by the development distribution runs `"\pythonw.exe" "\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw"`. Thus opening a file that's pinned to the jumplist will execute it as a script via "pythonw.exe". To integrate better with the Windows shell, IDLE wo

[issue43236] Windows IDLE taskbar icon jump list fails to open recent files

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I will just note that the IDLE File menu has a Recent Files list, which is the same thing. (Notepad++ does also, in addition to a working icon jump list.) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue43236] Windows IDLE taskbar icon jump list fails to open recent files

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This is a Windows installer code issue rather than an IDLE code issue. On Win10, I do not see jump lists for IDLE icons but do for several others. Perhaps the installer was changed to disable the non-functional lists. I will let the installer people comme