From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:44:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make gitk work reasonably well on Cygwin. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <45C0C4DF.C0EB4495@eudaptics.com> Hi, On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > I also verified that with my Tcl/Tk installation on MacOSX, a patch like > > this was needed. IIRC Paulus argued that I should get a native TclTk, > > which is supposed to work (though not with the paths on Cygwin, oh well). > > > > Oh, and it is also needed for MinGW. But I guess it will remain unfixed. > > You patch does not improve gitk under MinGW. The layout becomes less > useful because the lower part becomes too high, so that the Search bar > and some part of the patch + file list windows is not visible. :( Ah yes, I don't use gitk all that often, and I did not realize that there was a search bar. Still, I think Mike's patch is too verbose, i.e. it is not minimal enough ;-) Ciao, Dscho