OK, so I've tried posting this to the related thread on the devel list, but for whatever reason, I've had very mixed luck posting there, recently. Most of my posts don't seem to make it, at least not back to gmane where I'd read them, but just enough do so I know it's not a blanket-dead path... which kept me trying for quite some time. (And after each try, I'd wait to see if it was just taking a bit long to make it, and between that and some hardware issues I'm having ATM, crashing at the wrong time...)
So I'll try the user list where my luck seems better! OK, here's the deal. The group colors code is working now; I can change colors in group prefs and it sticks. Good! =:^) (And the ASCII ae is working in the user-agent header "Der Geraet", aka "The Tool", "The Device" now. Good! =:^) But, the default group-pane color is still hard-coded black text, which is pretty much unreadable on any "reverse" color scheme with (normally) light text colors against dark backgrounds (dark blue, in my case). Which is still OK for groups you use enough to bother changing the default color for, but the other day, for instance, I needed to look up an unsubscribed group name, and found to my great dismay that I couldn't read any of them, because they were all black text on my usual dark blue background! Two possible solutions: 1. Detect the gtk scheme background color and auto-adjust the default text color accordingly. 2. Take the approach Charles did with this sort of thing, and simply add another color pref on the colors tab of pan prefs. =:^) We'd add another section, Group Pane, with a single entry, "Default group text:". Except, I don't see anything else using "default" in the description. Petr's the guy to ask. "Default" is a useful enough word for coders and others into computers, but is it a common enough concept to work for non- computer-types? Better suggestion? #2 should I think be easier and will fit with the way pan already works, since as I said, Charles already took that approach for a number of things, including URL color, for instance, when I complained about his hard-coded color choice for it. (Seems my "reverse" color-scheme makes me a good guinea-pig for testing such things! =:^] ) My big question is whether "Default group text:" is a sufficient label, or whether there's a better alternative. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
