[Idle-dev] "Jeff Hobbs": RE: Strange delays when using raise or lower in KDE

[Guido van Rossum]

FYI.

It appears a Tcl bug, fixed in Tcl 8.3.4.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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Date:    Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:39:20 -0800
From:    "Jeff Hobbs" <JeffH@activestate.com>
To:      "'Guido van Rossum'" <guido@python.org>
Subject: RE: Strange delays when using raise or lower in KDE

Guido,

I believe this was addressed in Tk bug 220260:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12997&atid=112997&func=detail&aid=220260

That means you shouldn't see the problem with 8.3.4, although you
might with 8.3.3.  I haven't gotten any recent email about this
still being a problem, but can you verify what version of Tk these
guys are running against?

Thanks,

Jeff


> -----Original Message-----
> From: guido@pcp742651pcs.reston01.va.comcast.net
> [mailto:guido@pcp742651pcs.reston01.va.comcast.net]On Behalf Of Guido
> van Rossum
> Sent: February 26, 2002 1:34 PM
> To: JeffH@ActiveState.com
> Subject: Strange delays when using raise or lower in KDE
>
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Can I point you to a recent discussion on idle-dev?
>
> The thread "Slow close?" started here
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2002-February/000872.html
>
> and ends inconclusively.  It appears to me that there is a fundamental
> problem in Tcl/Tk.  My summary: when I start wish on Linux and execute
> the command "lower ." (not having done anything else) this takes about
> three seconds to return a command prompt.  Ditto for "raise .", most
> times (but not always -- when it actually moves the root window up, it
> returns immediately).
>
> Apparently (it's not easy for me to test this) this only happens when
> using KDE or GNOME.
>
> Can you shed any light on this?
>
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>

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