thufir posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:40:36 +0000 as excerpted: > On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 06:32:10 +0000, Duncan wrote: > >>> The colors I use are due to eyesight problems as I cannot take black >>> on white due to the high contrast. >> >> FWIW... >> >> Those colors aren't too far from mine. > > > Are those colors set from Pan, or are those system settings?
A combination of both. In-pane font-colors and their backgrounds are set in pan. The general widget colors and menu and toolbar font colors, plus the body-pane titlebar (basically all the green text) are system settings. One of the historic problems pan has had with font colors at various times over the years as the code changed is that the hard-coded defaults always seemed to assume a light background, while mine (and Bob's) are obviously dark backgrounds, thus making reading difficult or impossible since the text/background contrast was too low. Rather than try to write background color detection and font-color adjustment code, the implemented fix was to make pretty much all of pan's formerly hard-coded font colors into preferences. =:^) Charles started the trend back before the C -> C++ rewrite, the rewrite had initial problems which I complained about and that got fixed, and then later Heinrich added further font color prefs and had to adjust his code too, when dark-background folks like me complained. When Heinrich first added the custom group font color code, for instance, he added the ability to set the color for specific groups, but the default if unset was IIRC black, which obviously didn't show up so well on my dark backgrounds, so while I could set the color for my regular groups, I couldn't simply browse unsubscribed groups any more, as they were all unreadable black text on dark blue! So he had to add the "Other Text" color preference section now found on the color tab in pan prefs. That did solve the one problem as I could now set defaults for both text and background color, but there remains another, less urgent bug. The default color prefs now override the body pane quoted text color prefs, so everything there, multi-level quote and new content, shows up as the same color. =:^( But at least I can read it! Meanwhile, might be of interest to some... My "system colors" are configured in kde, with its "apply color settings to non-kde4 apps" option checked. The kde4 color scheme in question was originally downloaded from kde- look.org (which is integrated into kde via kde's "get hot new stuff" API) where it can be found as darkblue-deb. However, that was several years ago and I've modified it a reasonable amount since. But for interested kde-ers, that's where I started. If anyone wants it, I guess I could upload my current version somewhere (probably kde-look), too. -- 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
