[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#744131: tk8.6: green should not be a synonym for dark green

[Hashem Nasarat]

Package: tk8.6
Version: 8.6.1-5
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I noticed recently that the background branch color in gitk became hard to
read when using gitk in Debian. This color is hard to read for anyone, but
could be a serious hinderance for those with vision trouble.

gitk sets the branch background color to 'green' by writing the following
in ~/.config/git/gitk:

  set headbgcolor green

About a month ago I noticed that the branch background shade of green became
much darker.

I took a look at the source, and tracked down the error to this package.
Unfortunately I could not determine exactly what caused this regression.

Installing tk8.4 and running gitk from source had the proper 'green' branch
background color. tk8.5 also had the same color. However, with tk8.6 the
branch color is much darker.

To test this theory, I modified ~/.config/git/gitk to set the headbgcolor to
'red' and then to 'darkred' and saw a noticeable difference.
However, when I changed the headbgcolor to 'green' then 'darkgreen', the
resulting color was the same. (#00800)

The color green ought to be #00FF00, as per http://wiki.tcl.tk/1424

Please revert the definition of 'green' to #00FF00 or something lighter than
dark green.

Thanks!

Hashem

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages tk8.6 depends on:
ii  libc6           2.18-4
ii  libfontconfig1  2.11.0-5
ii  libfreetype6    2.5.2-1
ii  libtcl8.6       8.6.1-6
ii  libtk8.6        8.6.1-5
ii  libx11-6        2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxext6        2:1.3.2-1
ii  libxft2         2.3.1-2
ii  libxss1         1:1.2.2-1
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages tk8.6 recommends:
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.12.0-1
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           303-1

tk8.6 suggests no packages.

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