From: Philip Oakley Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:54:46 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] gitk: tweak rendering of remote-tracking references Message-ID: In-Reply-To: From: "Michael Haggerty" > 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. -- Philip