[Users] Text color of selected item in message and folder lists

[Robert Williams]

On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 15:33:43 -0700
Ben Hancock wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a big fan of Claws Mail, but there's an issue that continues to
> gnaw (claw?) at me, and that is the coloring of the selected
> message in the message list and selected folder in the folder list. 
> 
> I'm not the first person to raise this:
> 
> https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2020-September/026777.html
> https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2021-August/028651.html
> https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2022-July/030604.html
> 
> The issue is that the default background color when an item is
> selected is dark blue, and the foreground text is black, which is
> hard to read (I think we can agree on that?). The answer back to this
> complaint has consistently been that this is the fault of the GTK
> theme, and another one should be chosen. But this seems
> unsatisfactory.

This came up a few months ago. Edit the file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
to contain the following:

---code---
@import 'colors.css';
*:selected {
    background-color: #3584E4;
    color: #FBF6F0;
    }

---code---

This should give you white text on a blue background, but you can play
with the colours as you want.

Bob

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Robert Williams
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