[Pan-users] Re: Changing default font color - feature request.

[Duncan]

"Frederic Bezies" <address@hidden>
posted address@hidden,
excerpted below, on  Mon, 07 Aug 2006 07:18:10 +0200:

> <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/8/7, jef_e &lt;<a
> href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>&gt;:</span><blockquote
> class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);
> margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Just filed a feature
> request to be able to change the default for No<br>Score to something
> other than black. Dunno if I'm the only one, but here<br>it is
> anyway:<br><br>Bug 350210<br><a
> href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350210";>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350210</a><br><br>Thanks!<br><br>jef<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Invalid
> ? Just look at preferences / colours in Pan 0.106 ?<br clear="all"><br>--
> <br>Frederic Bezies<br><a

To the immediate parent poster:
pan doesn't do HTML for a reason.  Many consider HTML formatted mail or
news a security issue, and it's certainly a favorite message format of the
spammers and crackers. Please take the hint and leave HTML where it
belongs, on the web.  Don't post it to the pan lists, gmail or no gmail.

To the parent and OP:
pan doesn't have preferences for the default window and text color,
because those are set by your gtk+ 2.0 color scheme. 

If you have Gnome, it's easy to change. (I believe you have to change your
entire scheme if you do it by GUI, tho.  There's no way to change the
color of a single element unless you directly edit the config file, one of
the reasons I hate GNOME with a passion, as I want control over such
things on my desktop, or it's not part of my desktop!) 

With KDE (which I use, and which allows changing things like the color of
individual GUI elements from the GUI or I'd find something else that did
to use), there's a checkbox in the color selection dialog to have KDE apply
the same color scheme to non-KDE apps, where possible.  I don't know how
many others it changes, but it at least changes GTK (1 and 2) and GNOME
colors.  That's how I set my pan default colors, as it happens to white
text on a darkish gray-green (a bit greener than cadet blue) background,
so I know it can be changed as I've changed it.  

You can also set the colors by editing your gtkrc-2.0 file manually.  If
you'd like, I can post mine (as setup by KDE, with a couple manual tweaks
thereafter), to give you a file to hack on.

So... yes, if it were me, I'd close the bug as not-a-bug (invalid seems a
bit harsh, sometimes, so I prefer not to use it), but not because pan can
already set it directly, rather because it's already configurable by
changing your gtk (2.x) theme.

-- 
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