[PATCH 4/5] gitk: use more natural language for labels of color preferences

From: Johannes Sixt via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 6, 2026, 06:40 UTC
Message-ID: <ce417701a8b5cc0c3e0c0bfb235a75d4f8ac6877.1785998419.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.2194.git.1785998419.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>

The labels used to be clickable buttons. These would have looked funny if they carried long texts. For this reason, abbreviations and "nerdy" texts were used to keep them short. Since these labels are now static text, bring them closer to natural language.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
---
 gitk-git/gitk | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitk-git/gitk b/gitk-git/gitk
index 877b2ad27f..9e735d91bf 100755
--- a/gitk-git/gitk
+++ b/gitk-git/gitk
@@ -11838,31 +11838,31 @@ proc prefspage_colors {notebook} {
                     [mc "Background"] \
                     [mc "background"] \
         fg          fgcolor {} \
-                    [mc "Foreground"] \
+                    [mc "Main text"] \
                     [mc "foreground"] \
         diffold     diffcolors 0 \
                     [mc "Diff: old lines"] \
                     [mc "diff old lines"] \
         diffoldbg   diffbgcolors 0 \
-                    [mc "Diff: old lines bg"] \
+                    [mc "Diff: old lines background"] \
                     [mc "diff old lines bg"] \
         diffnew     diffcolors 1 \
                     [mc "Diff: new lines"] \
                     [mc "diff new lines"] \
         diffnewbg   diffbgcolors 1 \
-                    [mc "Diff: new lines bg"] \
+                    [mc "Diff: new lines background"] \
                     [mc "diff new lines bg"] \
         hunksep     diffcolors 2 \
-                    [mc "Diff: hunk header"] \
+                    [mc "Diff: hunk headers"] \
                     [mc "diff hunk header"] \
         markbg      markbgcolor {} \
-                    [mc "Marked line bg"] \
+                    [mc "Marked lines background"] \
                     [mc "marked line background"] \
         selbg       selectbgcolor {} \
-                    [mc "Select bg"] \
+                    [mc "Selected text background"] \
                     [mc "background"] \
         linkfg      linkfgcolor {} \
-                    [mc "Link"] \
+                    [mc "Link text"] \
                     [mc "link"] \
     ]

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