368546 - troubles with program color modification

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Arkady Belousov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; ru) Opera 9.10
Build Identifier: http://ftp-mozilla.netscape.com/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.9/win32/ru/Thunderbird%20Setup%201.5.0.9.exe

    TB is bad for me (with my bad sight), it too bright/contrast (black on white). Even theme like Walnut doesn't helps - it itself not much less contrast, and it not affect message view pane and it not affects composer. So, I go into options and try to customize TB by its options (below given options names, which I translate from Russian back to English).

1. Tools / Options / Show / Fonts / Fonts..., I change proportional size from 16 to 18 and mono space from 13 to 15 - nothing was changed. Neither immediately nor after program restart. Bug?

2. View / Font size / Increase (^+) changes font size, but not remembered after TB restart. Bug or missing feature?

3. Unfortunately, monospaced font, used by TB, is too thin, and even font increasing doesn't helps - see attachments, which show font in my console mailer and fonts in TB. Also, by strange reason, in Tools / Options / Show / Formatting none options to apply bold style for main text, only for quotes. Bug or missing feature?

4. Tools / Options / Show / Formatting / Color (first option, for quotes) was not initialized. After first color selecting, I now not know, how to de-initialize it back. Bug or missing feature?

4.1. Tools / Options / Show / Formatting / Color - takes effect not immediately, but only after selecting other message, which currently shown in View pane. Bug or missing feature?

5. Tools / Options / Show / Formatting - there are no options to control color of _text_ output, only "Messages in HTML format", but colors, selected here, anyway change color behavior for text output. Bug (in dialog design) or missing feature?

6. Tools / Options / Show / Formatting - for colors here, not shown names/numbers, so I can't use words to explain, which color is selected. Missing feature?

7. I was try to change palette of View pane, but Composer also get changed, and in wrong way: compare (in attachment #4 [details] [diff] [review]) color of quoted text in Composer (right part of image) with color in View pane (left part of image). Also note, which color TB uses for quotes prefix - looks like Composer uses it for quotes itself. Looks like bug.

7.1. In attachment #4 [details] [diff] [review] you may also see, that Composer tries to inherit colors, but forget to inherit font sizes. Bug?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Arkady Belousov]

Attachment: Font in console window

Comment 2

[Arkady Belousov]

Attachment: Fonts in TB window (thiner, than in console)

Comment 3

[Arkady Belousov]

Attachment: Increased font in TB (even more relative thiner)

Comment 4

[Arkady Belousov]

Attachment: Font color and sizes in Composer in compare with View pane

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Too many issues in one bug  =>  Invalid
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