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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>
To: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users•sourceforge.net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, msysgit@googlegroups•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: use themed tk widgets with Tk 8.5
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:51:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100128005142.GK5452@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wbln0oa.fsf@users.sourceforge.net>

Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users•sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> This patch enables the use of themed Tk widgets with Tk 8.5 and above.
> These make a significant difference on Windows in making the
> application appear native. On Windows and MacOSX ttk defaults to the
> native look as much as possible. On X11 the user may select a theme
> using the TkTheme XRDB resource class by adding an line to the
> .Xresources file. The set of installed theme names is available using
> the Tk command 'ttk::themes'. The default on X11 is similar to the current
> un-themed style - a kind of thin bordered motif look.
> 
> A new git config variable 'gui.usettk' may be set to disable this if
> the user prefers the classic Tk look. Using Tk 8.4 will also avoid the
> use of themed widgets as these are only available since 8.5.
> 
> Some support is included for Tk 8.6 features (themed spinbox and native
> font chooser for MacOSX and Windows).

Thanks.  I've been running with this pretty much all day today;
it seems sane.  I'll probably push it shortly.

-- 
Shawn.

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-28  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-26  0:05 [PATCH] git-gui: use themed tk widgets with Tk 8.5 Pat Thoyts
2010-01-26  9:17 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-01-28  0:51 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2010-01-28  1:45   ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-28  1:42     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-01-28  2:54       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-28  2:56         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-01-28 21:20           ` [PATCH] git gui: Quote git path properly when starting another gui in a submodule Jens Lehmann
2010-01-28 23:45             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-02-02  8:25 ` [PATCH] git-gui: use themed tk widgets with Tk 8.5 Johannes Sixt
2010-02-02 21:09   ` Pat Thoyts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-12-20  0:46 Pat Thoyts
2009-12-20 13:16 ` [msysGit] " Johannes Schindelin
2009-12-20 15:23   ` Pat Thoyts
2009-12-20 19:04     ` Junio C Hamano

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