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From: Stefan Haller <stefan@haller-berlin.de>
To: Serg Tereshchenko <serg.partizan@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, me@yadavpratyush.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Fix selected text colors
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:41:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2436cd2e-26b9-a7cc-722a-7f27212f58f4@haller-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201122133233.7077-1-serg.partizan@gmail.com>

On 22.11.20 14:32, Serg Tereshchenko wrote:
> Stefan, please check if this fixes select colors for you.

Yes, this works. Thanks for the quick fix! I tested on Mac in both light
and dark mode, and on Windows.

> --- 8< ---
> 
> Added selected state colors for text widget.
> 
> Same colors for active and inactive selection, to match previous
> behaviour.

Preserving the previous behavior is probably a good idea when fixing a
regression.

However, it would actually be nice to have different colors for active
and inactive selection (could be a follow-up patch). In native Mac and
Windows applications the active selection background is usually light
blue, and the inactive one is light grey. This would not just be a
cosmetic improvement that looks prettier (that wouldn't be worth it),
but it would be a real usability improvement because it would make it
much easier to tell which of the four main views has the keyboard focus.

I couldn't find a way to query the inactive selection colors, though. Do
you know if there's a way to do that? If not, I guess one way to do this
is to numerically calculate a grey color with a similar brightness from
the active selection background. I could work on a patch if you think
this is an approach that makes sense.

-Stefan


> Signed-off-by: Serg Tereshchenko <serg.partizan@gmail.com>
> ---
>  lib/themed.tcl | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/themed.tcl b/lib/themed.tcl
> index 83e3ac7..eda5f8c 100644
> --- a/lib/themed.tcl
> +++ b/lib/themed.tcl
> @@ -34,8 +34,10 @@ namespace eval color {
>  		}
>  		add_option *Text.Background $text_bg
>  		add_option *Text.Foreground $text_fg
> -		add_option *Text.HighlightBackground $base_bg
> -		add_option *Text.HighlightColor $select_bg
> +		add_option *Text.selectBackground $select_bg
> +		add_option *Text.selectForeground $select_fg
> +		add_option *Text.inactiveSelectBackground $select_bg
> +		add_option *Text.inactiveSelectForeground $select_fg
>  	}
>  }
>  
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-22 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-24 15:48 [PATCH] git-gui: Basic dark mode support Serg Tereshchenko
2020-08-25 19:01 ` Matthias Aßhauer
2020-09-22 11:04 ` Pratyush Yadav
2020-09-26 14:54   ` [PATCH v2] " Serg Tereshchenko
2020-10-07 11:07     ` Pratyush Yadav
2020-10-08  8:24       ` [PATCH] " Serg Tereshchenko
2020-10-08 13:07     ` [PATCH v2] " Pratyush Yadav
2020-11-21 17:47       ` Stefan Haller
2020-11-22 12:30         ` serg.partizan
2020-11-22 13:32         ` [PATCH] git-gui: Fix selected text colors Serg Tereshchenko
2020-11-22 15:41           ` Stefan Haller [this message]
2020-11-22 17:16             ` serg.partizan
2020-11-23 11:48               ` [PATCH] git-gui: use gray selection background for inactive text widgets Stefan Haller
2020-11-23 13:13                 ` serg.partizan
2020-11-23 19:03                   ` Stefan Haller
2020-11-23 20:08                     ` serg.partizan
2020-11-29 17:40                 ` Stefan Haller
2020-11-30 13:41                   ` serg.partizan
2020-11-30 18:08                     ` [PATCH] git-gui: use gray selection background for inactive text?? widgets Pratyush Yadav
2020-11-30 20:18                       ` [PATCH] git-gui: use gray selection background for inactive text widgets Stefan Haller
2020-11-30 20:18                         ` [PATCH] git-gui: keep showing selection when diff view gets deactivated on Mac Stefan Haller
2020-11-23 19:03               ` [PATCH] git-gui: Fix selected text colors Stefan Haller
2020-11-23 20:50                 ` serg.partizan
2020-11-24 21:19                   ` Stefan Haller
2020-11-24 21:23                     ` [PATCH v2] git-gui: use gray background for inactive text widgets Stefan Haller
2020-12-17 21:49                       ` Pratyush Yadav
2020-12-17 22:14                         ` Stefan Haller
2020-12-18 12:50                           ` Pratyush Yadav
2020-12-18 13:01                             ` Stefan Haller
2020-12-18  9:43                         ` [PATCH v3] " Stefan Haller
2020-12-18 12:51                           ` Pratyush Yadav
2020-12-18 19:46                           ` Pratyush Yadav
2020-12-17 20:23           ` [PATCH] git-gui: Fix selected text colors Pratyush Yadav
2020-10-07 11:13 ` [PATCH] git-gui: Basic dark mode support Pratyush Yadav
2020-10-08  8:20   ` Serg Tereshchenko
2020-10-08  8:28     ` Pratyush Yadav
2020-10-08  8:44       ` Serg Tereshchenko

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