Re: [Pan-users] New Win32 build 0.140 + GIT

[Duncan]

Bruce Bowler posted on Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:52:15 +0000 as excerpted:

> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 12:13:35 +0100, Steve Davies wrote:
> 
>> PAN Win32 installer just got updated to 0.140 with all GIT patches as
>> of today 28/Sep/2013.
>> 
>> For brand-new installs, there are some odd default background colours 
> 
> I've got 2 other 'color' problems.
> 
> - quoted text isn't rendered in 'quoted text' colors, but rather just
> black.

Unfortunately that's what I've been seeing here on (Linux) git-pan as 
well, so it's not an MS thing.  The "other text" colors seem to be 
overriding the quoted text colors, and everything (but URLs, and headers 
when they're toggled to show) in the body has been in the same "other" 
color for some time (since sometime last year, AFAIK, I /think/ shortly 
after 0.139 release).

Obviously a bug, but I said something about it back then and I guess 
Heinrich missed it -- well either that or I think it /was/ was about the 
time he got busy and didn't do a whole lot more.  But even if he caught 
it then and simply didn't have time to chase it down back then, I didn't 
file it as a bug and he probably long forgot about it by now.

I had thought I'd try bisecting it to the problem commit, and see if 
given the changed code as a hint, I could pick up what was wrong, and 
what was different between quote colors and URL colors, which DO apply, 
but I never got to it.

So it's good to bring back up now.  Perhaps Heinrich or someone else who 
can actually code can see what's wrong and create a patch.  I'd guess 
it'd be applied pretty fast once someone had a patch.

> - If one makes any changes to the preferences in 'edit selected groups
> preferences' the 'group color' is, by default, white, which is the color
> the group name is rendered in.  That doesn't show up very well on the
> white background.  Is it possible to get the default group color to be
> black?

I didn't notice that as I prefer a "reverse" color scheme, light text on 
dark backgrounds, but when the colored-groups feature first went in, I 
remember having problems with it due to my "reverse" scheme and the fact 
that all unset-color groups were defaulting to dark text... on my dark 
background!

AFAIK that's actually why he put in the "other text" setting, so a user 
could set a reasonable (for them) foreground and background color 
regardless of whether they preferred a "normal" dark-on-light scheme, or 
a "reverse" light-on-dark scheme as I do.

Except when he did that, it had the effect of overruling the body pane's 
quoted text color, but unlike the dark text on dark background groups 
that I was dealing with before, I could at least read that, so that's why 
I didn't press it when Heinrich didn't immediately get to my mention that 
it killed the quoted text colors.

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