On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Christian Dysthe posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:11:37 -0600 as excerpted: >
> Two notes: > > 1) In general, building with gtk2 is still recommended, and AFAIK what > most distros (including my own, gentoo) do. As you found, pan built on > gtk3 does build and work in general, but it's not as well tested, and > people who try it often post here with various corner-case issues such as > the one you just reported. > > We'd need someone (preferrably more than one, using pan different ways, > with one person having a strong light text on dark backgrounds pref as I > do, and one with the apparently more common light/white background, dark > text, pref) with good developer and patching skills, who is familiar > enough with gtk3 to trace down the remaining usability issues and propose > patches, before pan's gtk3 build is considered ready for prime-time. > > 2) I'm not sure how applicable this is to a gtk3 build, but as I said my > prefs are light on dark, which means I have nearly all pan's color prefs > set non-default. > > I found I had to set text color (bottom of colors tab in pan prefs, under > other text), or I couldn't read some things due to light-on-light or dark- > on-dark (apparently pan was taking either foreground or background > settings from my standard gtk2 prefs, I don't remember which, but not > both, so they were both near the same color and I couldn't read). > > The trouble with that, however, is that while I can at least read the > text now, that setting unfortunately overrides some of the others, and > I'm not a coder so I can't easily go in and read/hack around until I > figure out why and suggest a patch to fix it properly. > > In particular, once other text color is set, body pane quoted text > settings get ignored, with all quoted text appearing in the "other text" > color, so I no longer have color-differentiated quotes. =:^( > > > So try setting "other text, text color" (and background). If that works > on gtk3, good, tho you might have the quote color override problem I'm > seeing. If it doesn't, try building with gtk2. You should be able to > set it then, but you probably /will/ have the quote color override > problem I'm seeing, since that's what I'm using. Thank you for your help. I did do a gtk2 build which turns out to have the same problem. I did change the colors according to your instructions and it works but I am not able to get any color separation in the body to work at all. It's all black regardless of settings. Everything else works great, so I hope these text color issues can be sorted out. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
