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.
>
>

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