On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 00:56 +0000, TK Soh wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Douglas Philips <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On or about 2009 Feb 20, at 4:50 PM, Steve Borho indited: >> >>> >> >>> I wonder if the 'default theme' has been fixed in newer GTK releases >> >>> so it is acceptable on Vista. >> >>> Anyone have the latest PyGtk and Vista care to test that? >> >> >> >> That is a good question. >> >> An equally good question is why did so many of the themes I tried with THg >> >> produce such poor results? >> >> If the default theme was OK, then I would be inclined to think that the >> >> freebie themes were just incomplete. >> >> Maybe there is something THg is doing that is thematically dubious? Since >> >> I >> >> don't know GTK and I won't be spun-up on in before 0.7, I can't answer or >> >> volunteer to answer, I can just speculate... >> > >> > It's kind of a moot point anyway, since we'll be upgrading GTK right >> > after the 0.7 release. It is a good reason to be conservative with >> > theme changes in this release. A minimal patch of the default theme >> > would be best. I may try that later this evening. >> >> For Windows, I very much like to keep to the look and feel 'default' >> XP (MS-Windows) theme that we have been shipping in the installer, >> until we have better understanding on the topic. Patching the default >> theme will be okay as long as it doesn't steer too far away. >> >> Just a thought. As a interim workaround, perhaps we should add the >> theme option into thgconfig to allow user to select theme more easily, >> assuming you haven't done so? But please keep XP theme as default. > > I would but this is problematic on Vista. A normal user does not have > permission to edit files inside the TortoiseHg install directory, which > is where the theme selection currently takes place.
It will still work for the user that have the admin right, or the admin for those that do not. > I would like to have a general solution for this, but it will likely > have to wait till the next release. For 0.7, I plan to tweak the > default theme as little as possible to make it work on Vista and XP. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-develop
