To those who kindly added their voice to this discussion, I also invite you to add to the ticket that I opened about it a while back:
https://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672/tickets/3296-regression-text-color-not-inverting-when-selecting-an-item#ticket-3296-2 I have yet to see a response. Thanks. Pierre On 31 Jan 2024, at 8:54, Pierre Igot wrote: > Just want to confirm that the new system for coloring messages works just as > well as the old styles.plist-based one. In fact, in some respects it has more > flexibility and works better. > > HOWEVER, there is one glaring issue that remains unaddressed in recent > builds: when a coloured message is selected in a list, the selection > highlighting colour is your default “accent” colour (typically dark blue), > but MailMate does not INVERT the coloured text to white to make it readable > over the dark blue background. The result is that, if the text colour for the > message in the list happens to be a fairly dark colour, it becomes pretty > much unreadable when highlighted. The only dark-coloured messages that remain > readable when selected are those that are in BLACK. If the text colour of the > message is black, then MM inverts it to white when selected. For all other > colours, there’s no inversion. Only lighter text colours remain (somewhat) > readable over a dark blue background when selected. > > I have send an extensive post directly to Benny about this, with supporting > screen shots, explaining why I strongly believe that he should bring back > inversion for coloured messages as well, i.e. ignore the default accent > colour and use THE MESSAGE’S TEXT COLOUR as background for the highlighting > and invert the text itself to white. This used to be the case in order builds > of MM. Then at some point Benny reversed his decision and went back to using > the default accent colour for highlighting in the message list, regardless of > the text colour of the highlighted message, with no inversion of the text to > white in order to make is readable. > > I would really like that all those other MM users who use text colouring > (either in an older build via the hidden Styles.plist feature or in more > recent builds with the new smart-mailbox-based feature) indicate here how > they feel about this defective text inversion scheme that makes it coloured > messages hard to read when selected/highlighted. It might be a bit “slicker” > and “cleaner” to have the same accent colour for selection highlighting > everywhere in the message list, but it is at the expense of readability and > usability. I’d rather have a mishmash of different selection highlighting > colours based on the underlying colours of the selected messages, with proper > inversion of the text to white. I find the lack of readability of > non-inverted darker text over a dark selection highlighting colour background > much less “clean” and very inelegant and user-hostile. > > At the very least, Benny could bring back text inversion for selected > messages using their own colour as the selection highlighting colour as an > OPTION for those who use text colouring — which is now, after all, a fully > supported (no longer hidden) feature in the MM user interface. > > Anyone else agree? > > Thanks. > > Pierre > > > > On 31 Jan 2024, at 2:41, Sven Klages wrote: > >> Thank you Bill & Eric! >> >> Sounds good, I will give it a try :-) >> >> -Sven >> >> Am 30.01.24 um 23:58 schrieb Eric Sharakan via mailmate: >>> On 30 Jan 2024, at 17:33, Bill Cole wrote: >>> >>>> On 2024-01-30 at 14:32:34 UTC-0500 (Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:32:34 +0100) >>>> Sven Klages <[email protected]> >>>> is rumored to have said: >>>> >>>> [...] >>>>> When using smart mailboxes as proposed in the comments of your bug >>>>> report, I do have one type/color per smart folder, that’s not the same … >>>>> did I get it right? >>>> >>>> Yes, but I think that you are missing the fact that you can create a smart >>>> mailbox aggregating the messages of other (colored-message) smart >>>> mailboxes. The messages keep the color assigned by the parent mailbox. >>> >>> Right, all you need to do is create smart mailboxes containing the >>> conditions you want for coloring the messages. Then, use the Mailbox->Color >>> submenu to choose a color for that mailbox, and also select "Use Color in >>> Message List". Your chosen color will be applied not only to the messages >>> in your smart mailbox, but also to the original messages, wherever they >>> reside. >>> >>> It's totally flexible and has been working great for me. >>> >>> -Eric >>> _______________________________________________ >>> mailmate mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate > > > -- > LATEXT: Literature, music and visuals / Littérature, musique et graphisme - > www.latext.com > BETALOGUE: Blog - www.betalogue.com | Mastodon: @[email protected] > FAUX AMIS : Site sur les faux amis anglais-français - www.fauxamis.fr | > Mastodon: @[email protected] -- LATEXT: Literature, music and visuals / Littérature, musique et graphisme - www.latext.com BETALOGUE: Blog - www.betalogue.com | Mastodon: @[email protected] FAUX AMIS : Site sur les faux amis anglais-français - www.fauxamis.fr | Mastodon: @[email protected] _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
