[Users] New color of selected mail and folder on list panes

Dustin Miller dustbiz at gmail.com
Thu Sep 21 10:38:11 UTC 2023


On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:01:04 +0100
Adrian via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:

> I had to go out just after posting and immediately guessed what the
> source of the color might be. I came back and confirmed it.  #e95420
> is "Ubuntu orange".
> 
> This color is used by default for all selected text in Ubuntu.  BUT
> when black text is selected and the bg color goes orange, the font
> color turns white.  In Claws Mail the text stays black (or gray when
> Claws doesn't have focus).
> 
> As I said I noticed it after upgrading Claws so I'm puzzled that it's
> an OS color, and unclear if the ornage has changed or something else.
> 
> So my question is now if there's a way to override these in Claws -
> either the bg color for selected list lines, or the font color.
> 
DM: Hi, Adrian. Within the last hour or so, I replied to your previous
email, just FYI. Hoping it gets through to you. Cheers, ---Dustin
> 
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:21:34
> +0100 Adrian <adrian at aeolian.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > A simple question, but one that I can't find an answer to in the
> > manual or the user-contributed FAQ so it might be mising or not in
> > an obvious place.
> > 
> > I've just moved to ver 4.1.1, and I notice that the background
> > color of the selected line(s) in message list is a much darker
> > orange than it used to be, making it very hard to read the text.
> > The selected folder in the folder list has the same bg color.
> > 
> > The color is #e95420 which is not the default Orange color which is
> > #ff9900.  In fact it doesn't appear anywhere in .clawsrc or any
> > other config file I checkd.
> > 
> > Can this be configured either by user interface or by editing a
> > file?  
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