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

> From: "Michael Haggerty" <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
>> 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.