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refreshing the gitk colour scheme

From
Andrej Shadura <andrew.shadura@collabora.co.uk>
Date
May 12, 2018, 13:14 UTC
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<7641bc4d-bc0d-845b-3c3e-4071fc184e12@collabora.co.uk>
Hello everyone,

I’ve been using Gitk with the following colour settings for a year or so, and I found it much more convenient to use that the current default, so I’d like to propose to make them the defaults. These colours are slightly less 80’s i.e. they’re using colours outside of the ‘classic’ 16 colour palette for a more pleasing visual experience.

set headbgcolor #98ff5e set remotebgcolor #bae2ff set tagbgcolor #f3fb57 set mainheadcirclecolor #ffeb74 set indexcirclecolor green set circlecolors {white #08b5ed gray blue blue}

I also found it may be a good idea to disable auto-selection of the commit hash by default, since it overwrites whatever content was in the selection clipboard, and also pollutes the clipboard history if the user is using a clipboard manager:

set autoselect 0

Here’s one more change which I am not proposing for inclusion, but I found it more æsthetically pleasing than the default:

set mainfont {FreeSans 11}
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Cheers,
  Andrej
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