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

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Dec 19, 2016, 22:54 UTC
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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:
>
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> * 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.

-- Philip

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Message 15 of 24 in “gitk: tweak rendering of remote-tracking references”
  1. 00/13 gitk: tweak rendering of remote-tracking referencesMichael Haggerty, Dec 19, 2016
  2. 01/13 gitk: when processing tag labels, don't use `marks` as scratch spaceMichael Haggerty, Dec 19, 2016
  3. 02/13 gitk: keep track of tag types in a separate `types` arrayMichael Haggerty, Dec 19, 2016
  4. 12/13 gitk: add a configuration setting `remoterefbgcolor`Michael Haggerty, Dec 19, 2016
  5. 07/13 gitk: extract a method `remotereftext`Michael Haggerty, Dec 19, 2016
  6. 06/13 gitk: simplify regexpMichael Haggerty, Dec 19, 2016
  7. 04/13 gitk: use a type "mainhead" to indicate the main HEAD branchMichael Haggerty, Dec 19, 2016
  8. 08/13 gitk: only change the color of the "remote" part of remote refsMichael Haggerty, Dec 19, 2016
  9. 05/13 gitk: fill in `wvals` as the tags are first processedMichael Haggerty, Dec 19, 2016
  10. 09/13 gitk: shorten labels displayed for modern remote-tracking refsMichael Haggerty, Dec 19, 2016
  11. 10/13 gitk: use type "remote" for remote-tracking referencesMichael Haggerty, Dec 19, 2016
  12. 11/13 gitk: introduce a constant otherrefbgcolorMichael Haggerty, Dec 19, 2016
  13. 13/13 gitk: change the default colors for remote-tracking referencesMichael Haggerty, Dec 19, 2016
  14. 03/13 gitk: use a type "tags" to indicate abbreviated tagsMichael Haggerty, Dec 19, 2016
  15. Philip OakleyDec 19, 2016
  16. Michael HaggertyDec 20, 2016
  17. Marc BranchaudDec 20, 2016
  18. Paul MackerrasDec 20, 2016
  19. Marc BranchaudDec 20, 2016
  20. Michael HaggertyDec 21, 2016
  21. Marc BranchaudDec 21, 2016
  22. Michael HaggertyDec 22, 2016
  23. Marc BranchaudJan 9, 2017
  24. Marc BranchaudFeb 6, 2017

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