Re: [PATCH 00/13] gitk: tweak rendering of remote-tracking references

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From: "Michael Haggerty" <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
This patch series changes a bunch of details about how remote-tracking
references are rendered in the commit list of gitk:

[...]
* Introduce a separate constant to specify the background color used
 for the branch name part of remote-tracking references, to allow it
 to differ from the color used for local branches (which by default
 is bright green).

* Change the default background colors for remote-tracking branches to
 light brown and brown (formerly they were pale orange and bright
 green).

I understand that the colors of pixels on computer screens is an even
more emotional topic that that of bikesheds, so I implemented the last
change as a separate commit, the last one in the series. Feel free to
drop it if you don't want the default color change.



Just to say that there was an issue with the bright green (lime) a while
back when 'green' changed its colour.

dscho reported in
(https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/300#issuecomment-133702654
26 Aug 2015)

"[T]his is a change in Tk 8.6 described here (http://wiki.tcl.tk/1424): From
Tcl/Tk 8.6 on, Tk uses Web colours instead of X11 ones, where they
conflict."

In particular the old bright green version of 'green' became a darker green,
with the old colour becoming named lime.

For me, I needed to change my colour scheme (to a lime) as I could not read
the refs against the darker colour.

Anyway, that's the background as I know it.

--
Philip





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