Thanks for reposting the mail from Steve.
2009/2/20 Douglas Philips <[email protected]>
> On 2009 Feb 20, at 2:51 AM, Peer Sommerlund wrote:
>
> I have just installed build 090219 and the looks of the theme doesn't
>> blend well with my Windows Classic theme.
>>
>> Well, maybe I will just have to get used to it.
>>
>
> As per the reply I just wrote to TK, quoting Steve, there are other themes
> to evaluate which are already part of that build, but you have to change the
> theme inside the TortoiseHg hierarchy.
>
> My goal is readability, and the three themes that Steve is now including
> were the ones that sucked the least. I don't know what you mean by "Windows
> Classic" theme, as the only GTK I use is THg.
In this case "Windows Classic" is not a GTK theme, it is a Windows XP theme.
It looks like Windows 95 with grey buttons in the upper right corner,
instead of blue and red in the default WinXP theme.
> I just know that the MS-Windows theme default wasn't working readability
> wise. I feel very strongly that THg's GUIs should be readable out of the
> box, but other than that, I do not care what theme is the default.
>
I agree that default values should be usable, but I'm a little puzzled that
they are not. I would expect GTK to have a similar goal of default-usable.
>
> I have GTK installed, but changing theme on GTK does not affect the THG
>> GTK theme.
>>
>
> Yes, this is a dilemma, the same would go for configuring your python, or
> if you already had mercurial installed, configuring that. At least the
> user's home directory mercurial.ini would be used by both THg and Mercurial.
> I don't know GTK well enough to know if there is a similar way to share
> there... THg would have to still install its own GTK in case there wasn't
> already one installed to use, but finding a common configuration ground
> would be nice.
.. or the installer should bundle a standard GTK installer and only activate
it if GTK was not already present.
Regards,
Peer
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