179578 - UI to define text & background colors for multiple quote-levels

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90315

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Frederic Bezies]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021111
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021111

I searched and I cannot find any enhancement like this one.

It should be useful to add a feature which displays every new level of quoting
with a different colour. Only having blue is sometime a little poor.

There is a feature like this in Xnews.

It could help people to find what peoples really wrote.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This enhancement was suggested in the "make 1.5 more user friendly" discussions
in the newsgroups.

Instructions and sample CSS:
http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/tips.html#app_quotelevels

Gerv

Comment 2

[Peter Lairo]

Suggested UI:

+-- Quote-Level Colors ---------------------------------------+
|                                                             |
| Level 1: Text Color [Blue  ] Background Color [10% grey] /\ |
| Level 2: Text Color [Red   ] Background Color [15% grey] || |
| Level 3: Text Color [Green ] Background Color [20% grey] || |
| Level 4: Text Color [Purple] Background Color [25% grey] \/ |
| [More] [Fewer] [Reset to Default]                           |
|                                                             |
| Preview:                                                    |
|   This is unquoted text                                  /\ |                
                               
|   | This is Level 1 Quoted Text |   |   |   |   |   |    || |
|   || This is Level 2 Quoted Text |  |  |  |  |  |  |     || |
|   ||| This is Level 3 Quoted Text | | | | | | | | | |    || |
|   |||| This is Level 4 Quoted Text ||||||||||||||||||    \/ |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+

There also needs to be a better way to select/define shades of gray. The current
color picker is not very good for this. Something where selecting these would be
easy: RGB(245,245,245), RGB(235,235,235), RGB(225,225,225), etc.

Comment 3

[Peter Lairo]

Making Subject more "findable:
OLD: Adding coloured for multiple quoted level in reply window.
NEW: UI to define text & background colors for multiple quote-levels

Comment 4

[Peter Lairo]

Attachment: Screenshot showing how (good) the result could look

Comment 5

[Peter Lairo]

(OT): Here's how to get the cool quote-level colors until this bug is fixed:
      http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/tips.html#app_quotelevels

Comment 6

[Peter Lairo]

Attachment: Screenshot showing colors in a "normal" discussion

Comment 7

[Stefan Borggraefe]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90315 ***