Package: tk8.6 Version: 8.6.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Debian jessie no longer packages tk8.4, and 8.5/8.6 versions of tk enable antialiasing some of the time, which is causing text to be nearly unreadable especially with a dark background. This is with gitk and a dark background using the courier font for the diff area. The font is the default font selected with gitk. I took screen shots of the same gitk script running on the same system with three versions of tk 8.4, 8.5, and 8.6 with my normal dark configuration and the stock light option. https://plus.google.com/114119938972260211379/posts/7FH11KdgDCq With the dark background the newer versions of tk take 28% more (vertical) space to display the same text, and yet for the dark background it's very very difficult to read, like it is blurred out to the point it is blurry and blends with the background color. The white background takes the same additional amount of space, but I would say it's a matter of opinion if it is more or less readable, I would say less, but not overly so. Here is my .gitk config if it matters. Note depending on the gitk version some colors are not ideal for the dark theme, this bug report is about font display, not gitk color selection. .gitk set mainfont {Helvetica 8} set textfont {Courier 8} set uifont {Helvetica 9 bold} set tabstop 8 set findmergefiles 0 set maxgraphpct 50 set maxwidth 16 set cmitmode patch set wrapcomment none set autoselect 0 set autosellen 40 set showneartags 1 set hideremotes 0 set showlocalchanges 1 set datetimeformat {%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S} set limitdiffs 1 set uicolor grey85 set uifgcolor black set want_ttk 1 set override_ttk 0 set bgcolor black set fgcolor white set colors {green red lightblue magenta darkgrey lightgray orange} set diffcolors {red green cyan} set markbgcolor #404060 set diffcontext 3 set selectbgcolor gray50 set filebgcolor #aaaaaa set extdifftool meld set perfile_attrs 0 set geometry(main) 700x488+0+230 set geometry(state) normal set geometry(topwidth) 696 set geometry(topheight) 160 set geometry(pwsash0) "372 2" set geometry(pwsash1) "574 2" set geometry(botwidth) 503 set geometry(botheight) 308 set permviews {} -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.19.0+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages tk8.6 depends on: ii libc6 2.19-15 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3 ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-3 ii libtcl8.6 8.6.2+dfsg-1 ii libtk8.6 8.6.2-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii libxft2 2.3.2-1 ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages tk8.6 recommends: ii konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:4.14.2-1 ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 312-2 tk8.6 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
