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

From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 27, 2021, 18:08 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJDDKr7itDvy1WPoC=kBPpT4_qm6MKWWfxwt96wQJKnGBGW5ng@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <135f854b-7975-a6a0-69ea-8697583a87b2@gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 3:41 AM Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 27/09/21 17.19, Sashank Bandi wrote:
> > I'm currently planning to convert this into a C++ program as there is no
> > way from the Tcl itself to change the color and background color of the title
> > bar or menu of the Git GUI window.
> >
> > I also CCed Pratyush Yadav as he is the official maintainer of the project.
> >
>
> Regarding GUI toolkit, you should pick the replacement carefully -
> tooling used in Git for Windows will need to be adapted in order to
> compile your chosen toolkit (whether it is Qt, GTK, or wxWidgets) for
> Windows.

Have you tried git cola? [1]

It uses Qt. It's cross-platform and written in Python.

Git GUI is useful because it's built in, but from a usability perspective cola has many advantages.

It has a dark mode that works more or less how you described:
- system default
- user-specified theme (dark/light with a few color variations)

.. and beyond these rather small differences, git cola even has image diffs[2]. That alone is a killer feature.

[1] https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/

[2] http://git-cola.github.io/screenshots.html

-- 
David