From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: More gitweb queries.. Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:03:06 +1000 Message-ID: <17051.39850.556062.543875@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Kay Sievers , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 31 01:03:05 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DctH4-000173-1g for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 01:02:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261817AbVE3XDr convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 19:03:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261811AbVE3XDr (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 19:03:47 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:48768 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261809AbVE3XDS convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 19:03:18 -0400 Received: by ozlabs.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 000A9679F9; Tue, 31 May 2005 09:03:11 +1000 (EST) To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds writes: > On that small note, I also find "gitk" very cool indeed, too bad ab= out=20 > the fact that tk/tcl seems to always end up looking so _ugly_. Is t= here=20 > any way to get anti-aliased fonts and a less 'Motify' blocky look f= rom=20 > tcl/tk? Every time I see that, I feel like I'm back in the last cen= tury =20 > or something. Tcl/Tk 8.5 will have anti-aliased fonts (8.5a2 is available on sourceforge). There is apparently some support for widget styling in 8.4 which I will have to look into. The Motif look doesn't bother me, but it does seem to bother you and Ben H. :) > Combining some of the features of the two (that =FCber-cool revisio= n=20 > history graph from gitk rules, for example) might be cool. I get th= e=20 > urge to do octopus-merges in the kernel just because of how good th= ey > look in gitk ;) ] Yes, it's nice that a relatively simple algorithm without much lookahead produces reasonable results. Paul.