Re: More gitweb queries..

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: May 30, 2005, 23:03 UTC
Message-ID: <17051.39850.556062.543875@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505271145570.17402@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds writes:

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>   On that small note, I also find "gitk" very cool indeed, too bad about 
>   the fact that tk/tcl seems to always end up looking so _ugly_. Is there 
>   any way to get anti-aliased fonts and a less 'Motify' blocky look from 
>   tcl/tk? Every time I see that, I feel like I'm back in the last century  
>   or something.

Tcl/Tk 8.5 will have anti-aliased fonts (8.5a2 is available on sourceforge). There is apparently some support for widget styling in 8.4 which I will have to look into. The Motif look doesn't bother me, but it does seem to bother you and Ben H. :)

>   Combining some of the features of the two (that über-cool revision 
>   history graph from gitk rules, for example) might be cool. I get the 
>   urge to do octopus-merges in the kernel just because of how good they
>   look in gitk ;) ]

Yes, it's nice that a relatively simple algorithm without much lookahead produces reasonable results.

Paul.