Re: [Pan-users] Pan0.139 problems

[Duncan]

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.

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