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

2009/12/20 Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]:

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

Here is a big set of screenshots then:

Unmodified or with Tk 8.4:
original windows: http://www.patthoyts.tk/screenshots/git-gui-old.png
original unix:        http://www.patthoyts.tk/screenshots/git-gui-x11.png

With Tk 8.5 and using themed widgets:
unix default: http://www.patthoyts.tk/screenshots/git-gui-default.png
unix alt:        http://www.patthoyts.tk/screenshots/git-gui-alt.png
unix classic: http://www.patthoyts.tk/screenshots/git-gui-classic.png
unix clam:     http://www.patthoyts.tk/screenshots/git-gui-clam.png
unix tileqt:    http://www.patthoyts.tk/screenshots/git-gui-tileqt.png
 (experimental)

windows7:     http://www.patthoyts.tk/screenshots/git-gui-win32.png

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.

You write better than I do. The theme used globally by themed Tk can
be selected on at least Ubuntu's GNOME desktop by adding the following
line into ~/.Xresources:
  *TkTheme: clam
It is also possible to add a Theme menu or selection combobox onto the
options dialog and record a theme selection along with the other
git-gui saved options. Then a user could use 'git config gui.theme
clam'. The set of available themes can be extended with packages and
is somewhat platform dependent (ie: xpnative can only be present on
Windows XP and above).

Pat Thoyts.