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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: gitk - ewww
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 22:05:15 -0800
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 
>>Screen shot is at:
>>http://www/hawaga.org.uk/ben/tech/gitk-eww-1.png
> 
> 
> Yes. gitk doesn't look wonderful with octopus merges, the lines start 
> crossing. Oh well. I think you have to live with it, it's done this for a 
> long time.
> 
> What makes _me_ go "eww" in that screenshot is that tcl/tk doesn't do 
> anti-aliased fonts, but maybe that's just me, and that's apparently 8.5 
> has that fixed (at a horrible performance impact, I'm sure, but hey, one 
> look at your screenshot and I'm saying "bring it on").
> 

It usually work OK for me, running on Fedora Core 4.

Clearly, though, it's Tcl/Tk version dependent; especially since it 
looks absolutely *awful* on Cygwin.

	-hpa