Re: [PATCH] git-gui: use themed tk widgets with Tk 8.5

Pat Thoyts [off-list ref] writes:

2009/12/20 Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref]:

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 On Windows and MacOSX ttk defaults to the native look as much as possible.
 On X11 the user may select a theme using the TkTheme XRDB resource class.

Maybe you could describe a quick way to set that resource?

echo '*TkTheme: clam' | xrdb -merge -

Or edit ~/.Xdefaults or maybe ~/.Xresources to add a line containing
 *TkTheme: clam
Used to be the X resource database was the way to customize X11. The
builtin themes are:
default: thin borders, kind of windows98ish
classic: motif style
alt: more windowsy still.
clam: based on some version of the XFCE look a few years ago.

On X, does the "default: thin borders, kind of windows98ish" look very
different from the non-themed classic Tk style?

What I am trying to get at is to gain enough information so that I can
suggest a rewrite of these two lines (quoted at the beginning by Dscho)
like this:

   Ttk defaults to the native look as much as possible on Windows and
   MacOSX; the default on X is the _________ look.

   The user may choose a theme by:

   - on Windows, doing ________;
   - on MacOSX, doing _________;
   - on X, selecting a theme using the TkTheme XRDB resource class;

which I think would be much easier to read.