On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:41 PM, SourceForge.net <nore...@sourceforge.net> wrote: > Summary: Highlighted colors of a menu item make texts undreadable > > Initial Comment: > As the issue summary says, the highlighted color of background and text of a > menu item in the dialogs are same, so I can't read the text of the item. > Of course, still I can know what the item says by moving highlights to other > items, but this is a defect that degrades the final quality of TortoiseHg. > > I'm using Windows Vista x64 and the default color scheme. Also I've installed > TortoiseHg from the official binary installer. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>Comment By: Steve Borho (sborho) > Date: 2009-02-16 21:41 > > Message: > It occurs to me that GTK themes would probably solve this problem. And we > just happen to ship with a few of them. For releases up to 0.7, you will > have to do this manually. In future releases, I may make this configurable > in thgconfig. > > * cd C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\share\themes > * look at the themes in this directory, remember their names or keep this > folder open. > * cd ..\..\etc\gtk-2.0 > * edit gtkrc and change the name of the theme you wish to use > * Changes take affect on all newly launched applications
I've verified that at least the Metal theme fixes the color conflict in the toolbar drop downs on Vista. Other themes may work as well. I've added this to the FAQ, including instructions on how to work around Vista's lame file security attempts. -- Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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-discuss mailing list Tortoisehg-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
