PlasticSCM on Mac

[sray]

I've been using version 4 on the PC platform and like the new UI very much. I just installed on a Mac and see it uses a very dark color scheme. Is there any way to change this to the lighter colors used on the PC version?

Thanks,

Steve

[manu]

Hi Steve,

sure!

just edit the "plastic" script to make it invoke the "plastic.exe" executable with the "--windowsnative" parameter.

EDIT: --theme=windowsnative

Manu.

[sray]

Thanks Manu. It took me a while to figure out which script to modify to allow proper launching from the Mac desktop (rather than command line).

I tried modifying /Applications/PlasticSCM/client/plastic, but that didn't work from the desktop. Instead, modifying "/Applications/PlasticSCM/Plastic GUI client.app/Contents/MacOS/launcher" did the trick. In this file, I made the following modification:

I changed the last line from:

"$basedir/config/mono_setup" mono "$basedir/client/$exe" "$@"

to:

"$basedir/config/mono_setup" mono "$basedir/client/$exe" "--theme=windowsnative" "$@"

Thanks for the tip!

Steve

[manu]

Just for curiosity,

do you prefer the "windowsnative" theme for MacOS?

Manu.

[sray]

Hi Manu,

I used to like the darker theme from 3.0, but I've been using the lighter theme on the PC for a while now and it has quite grown on me. So at this point, I prefer the windowsnative...

Steve

[manu]

Hi Steve,

yes, you are not the only one feeling more comfortable with the windowsnative!