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Giggle: A Git GUI

Giggle: A Git GUI

Posted Jun 2, 2010 22:52 UTC (Wed) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736)
Parent article: Giggle: A Git GUI

I use gitk and git gui ubiquitously, both on Linux and on Mac OS X.

Aren't there Tk themeing options which could be used to improve the Gnomishness of the gitk and git gui tools?


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Giggle: A Git GUI

Posted Jun 3, 2010 10:31 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

There are, from TK 8.5 onwards.
For some weird reason, Ubuntu 10.04 insists on using Tcl/Tk 8.4, even if 8.5 is installed from the repositories (and insists on removing gitk and git-gui if Tk 8.4 is removed!).

Default tk version on Debian-based systems

Posted Jun 11, 2010 8:04 UTC (Fri) by jrn (subscriber, #64214) [Link]

Try "update-alternatives --config wish" (or writing a symlink /usr/bin/wish8.5 -> wish on your $PATH if you lack privileges).

Default tk version on Debian-based systems

Posted Jun 20, 2010 19:28 UTC (Sun) by xolox (guest, #67839) [Link]

dgm & jrn: I just created an LWN.net account so I could thank you both! git-gui looks a lot better using my favorite anti-aliased TTF fonts :-)

For anyone else who's interested, executing "sudo apt-get install tk8.5 && sudo update-alternatives --config wish" does the trick on Ubuntu 9.10.

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