So Linux kills the application instead of ending it when you reboot/shutdown without having closed all applications? Wouldn't it be better to solve the problem of not having sent the correct signal to SmartGit or SmartGit not responding correctly to the sent signal, than just working around by trying to fix a symptom?

Is anybody using an LFS provider other than GitHub?

We've decided for 2 separate windows because it is possible to arrange them the way you like (assuming a large enough screen). For my last conflicts it has proven to improve the situation fairly well.

If you want to test-drive, please download SmartGit 8.1 preview 4 and invoke Help | Check for Latest Build to get #9048. Then create a file, e.g. dark-theme.properties with following content:

button.background=inherit
button.foreground=inherit
combo.background=inherit
combo.foreground=inherit
composite.background=inherit
composite.background#instructions=#505050
composite.foreground=inherit
label.background=inherit
label.foreground=inherit
link.background=inherit
link.foreground=inherit
qTabFolder.background=inherit
qTabFolder.foreground=inherit
sash.background=inherit
shell.background=#3f3f3f
shell.foreground=#cfcfcf
styledText.background=inherit
styledText.foreground=inherit
tabFolder.background=inherit
table.background=#303030
table.foreground=#e0e0e0
table.background#filter.searchHidden=#303020
table.background#filter.warning=#302020
text.background=inherit
text.foreground=inherit
toolBar.background=inherit
toolBar.foreground=inherit
tree.background=#303030
tree.foreground=#e0e0e0
info=#808080
warning=#f0f080
error=#ff8080
directories#warning=#ff8080
branches#ahead=#f0c080
branches#behind=#80f080
branches#approved=#80f080
branches#rejected=#ff8080

then open smartgit.properties in an editor and add the line

smartgit.theme.file=C:/Path/to/dark-theme.properties

Restart SmartGit.

We've decided against this because it would be hard to show changes between left-base and left-result (right-base and right-result) in an easy-to-understand way.

Here is a screenshot how SmartGit would look:

Especially note the black texts in the toolbar, tree selection, checkboxes, and the still gray title bar and table headers.

Would you think this to be sufficient?

Strange, a couple of years ago people complained about Swing user interfaces not looking platform-specific, but now people complain if the user interface look platform-specific. It looks like always some people are complaining.

You will see this dialog, if rebase-vs-merge is not yet configured. The default of this dialog is already rebase. I reckon we can assume if the user intentionally selects Merge, then this is done for a good reason. You also can tell your co-workers to always set the option pull.rebase=true in their ~/.gitconfig files. Then they will not see this dialog.