On 8 Jan 2023, at 20:10, Randy Bush wrote:
how does one choose the color of the counters in the menu bar?
I don’t believe there is a user-friendly way to do this.
However, as with practically everything else in MailMate, there is a
hidden configuration setting. Examining the output of “defaults read
com.freron.MailMate”, I find the following cluster of settings:
MmCounters2 = (
{
color = "#3983C4D7";
count = unreplied;
inDock = 1;
inMenuBar = 1;
position = topLeft;
set = INBOX;
},
{
color = "#D03B06D7";
count = unread;
inDock = 1;
inMenuBar = 1;
position = topRight;
set = INBOX;
},
{
color = "#F9B311D7";
count = all;
inDock = 1;
inMenuBar = 1;
position = bottomLeft;
set = DRAFTS;
},
{
color = "#7CBF0CD7";
count = flagged;
inDock = 0;
inMenuBar = 0;
position = bottomRight;
set = INBOX;
}
);
Each color is expressed using four two-digit hex values (red, green,
blue, alpha). NB: alpha refers to transparency of the color. It seems
that only the background color is configurable, with a fixed white text
color.
Not only is this setting not user-friendly, it’s not all that
developer-friendly either. Editing these color values using
“defaults” will be trickier but the gist of it is, in a terminal
window:
defaults read com.freron.MailMate MmCounters2 > counters.txt
### Quit the MailMate app.
### Edit counters.txt to tweak only the color values.
defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmCounters2 “`cat
counters.txt`”
### Restart the MailMate app.
Note the finicky quotation marks: back-ticks nested inside double
quotes. This is necessary because the “defaults” command has no
option to read a value from stdin. I verified that this works for this
particular case, but if you mess up, you could trash your MailMate
preferences. Proceed at your own risk.
Glenn P. Parker
glenn.par...@comcast.net
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