From: Brian Downing Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:54:52 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk - Make selection highlight color configurable Message-ID: <20070626175452.GS4087@lavos.net> In-Reply-To: <1182825801300-git-send-email-mdl123@verizon.net> Mark Levedahl wrote: > Cygwin's tk by default uses a very dark selection background color > that makes the currently selected text almost unreadable. On linux, > the default selection background is a light gray which is very usable. > This makes the default a light gray everywhere but allows the user to > configure the color as well. I noticed this, and also noticed that the dark color in question was in fact the default Windows selection background color. Unfortunately, wish/gitk doesn't also use the default Windows selection foreground color (white), so the result is pretty unreadable. When playing with Git on Windows I worked around the problem by changing the selection color system-wide. (This patch is perhaps better than making it work the "Windows way" with the right system foreground color, though, as the tag and branch markers are also pretty ugly against a dark background...) -bcd -- *** Brian Downing