Re: [INFO] Does Git GUI support Dark Mode on Windows 10 ?

From: Sashank Bandi <bandi.rao999@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2021, 15:09 UTC
Message-ID: <CABkJDHGdzOFW5yP43LZtuUrV7WsDTvAi+kxka84-5P7ShbV9FQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20211004075600.5lbqed4mnwfsy4al@yadavpratyush.com>

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 1:26 PM Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I couldn't find time to catch up on this because its been busy at
> $DAYJOB.

Well, I hope you got a little time for this thread.

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> Anyway, git-gui does have some basic dark mode support, though I have
> seen reports that it does not work very well. You can change the Tk
> theme and it should enable dark mode on git-gui as well. See [0] for
> some more info. I am not very familiar with how Tk theming would work on
> Windows.

I am not even familiar with Tcl/Tk language itself. But from what I have found, the Tk uses "vista" theme which is Windows-only default theme.

> I think it would be nice if we can have a theme picker in the options
> menu though, so that is something you might want to look into.

Yes, I thought of adding a menu between "Tools" and "Help". It will contain 3 options(system, light, dark) as I said before.

> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20201008082004.5643-1-serg.partizan@gmail.com/

Well, this works only for Linux as Windows doesn't use X Server. But we can use `ttk::style theme use` for it all over the application.

My plan is to use a new theme, that is based on default, but can imitate the look of [0].

[0]: https://github.com/TkinterEP/ttkthemes/blob/master/ttkthemes/png/equilux/equilux.tcl