ADDENDUM: Also make sure you have r6024 installed, as previous versions had an issue with the text inversion in some situations.
https://updates.mailmate-app.com/archives/MailMate_r6024.tbz > For those of you who are affected by this issue, if you use MailMate’s > built-in colour feature to colour mailboxes and their contents, there is > actually a hidden preference in MailMate that switches from the default > scheme for selected/highlighted messages in the message list to a scheme > where the background colour used for highlighting selected messages, instead > of the being the default accent colour for MM, is the colour of the selected > message, and the text of the selected message is inverted (to white): > > defaults write com.freron.MailMate > MmMessagesOutlineViewColorInversionEnabled -bool YES > > (Probably requires a relaunch.) > > Benny has kindly provided me with this information (the feature has yet to be > documented) and noted that it has actually been supported for some time. > > I must say it’s a big relief to me that this hidden preference is available, > because it gives us much more flexibility in the choice of colours for > messages, since selecting messages no longer risks making them hard to read > in the message list. > > Hope this is useful to other people. > > Pierre > > > > >> To those who kindly added their voice to this discussion, I also invite you >> to add to the ticket that I opened about it a while back: >> >> https://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672/tickets/3296-regression-text-color-not-inverting-when-selecting-an-item#ticket-3296-2 >> >> I have yet to see a response. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Pierre >> >> On 31 Jan 2024, at 8:54, Pierre Igot wrote: >> >>> Just want to confirm that the new system for coloring messages works just >>> as well as the old styles.plist-based one. In fact, in some respects it has >>> more flexibility and works better. >>> >>> HOWEVER, there is one glaring issue that remains unaddressed in recent >>> builds: when a coloured message is selected in a list, the selection >>> highlighting colour is your default “accent” colour (typically dark blue), >>> but MailMate does not INVERT the coloured text to white to make it readable >>> over the dark blue background. The result is that, if the text colour for >>> the message in the list happens to be a fairly dark colour, it becomes >>> pretty much unreadable when highlighted. The only dark-coloured messages >>> that remain readable when selected are those that are in BLACK. If the text >>> colour of the message is black, then MM inverts it to white when selected. >>> For all other colours, there’s no inversion. Only lighter text colours >>> remain (somewhat) readable over a dark blue background when selected. >>> >>> I have send an extensive post directly to Benny about this, with supporting >>> screen shots, explaining why I strongly believe that he should bring back >>> inversion for coloured messages as well, i.e. ignore the default accent >>> colour and use THE MESSAGE’S TEXT COLOUR as background for the highlighting >>> and invert the text itself to white. This used to be the case in order >>> builds of MM. Then at some point Benny reversed his decision and went back >>> to using the default accent colour for highlighting in the message list, >>> regardless of the text colour of the highlighted message, with no inversion >>> of the text to white in order to make is readable. >>> >>> I would really like that all those other MM users who use text colouring >>> (either in an older build via the hidden Styles.plist feature or in more >>> recent builds with the new smart-mailbox-based feature) indicate here how >>> they feel about this defective text inversion scheme that makes it coloured >>> messages hard to read when selected/highlighted. It might be a bit >>> “slicker” and “cleaner” to have the same accent colour for selection >>> highlighting everywhere in the message list, but it is at the expense of >>> readability and usability. I’d rather have a mishmash of different >>> selection highlighting colours based on the underlying colours of the >>> selected messages, with proper inversion of the text to white. I find the >>> lack of readability of non-inverted darker text over a dark selection >>> highlighting colour background much less “clean” and very inelegant and >>> user-hostile. >>> >>> At the very least, Benny could bring back text inversion for selected >>> messages using their own colour as the selection highlighting colour as an >>> OPTION for those who use text colouring — which is now, after all, a fully >>> supported (no longer hidden) feature in the MM user interface. >>> >>> Anyone else agree? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Pierre >>> >>> >>> >>> On 31 Jan 2024, at 2:41, Sven Klages wrote: >>> >>>> Thank you Bill & Eric! >>>> >>>> Sounds good, I will give it a try :-) >>>> >>>> -Sven >>>> >>>> Am 30.01.24 um 23:58 schrieb Eric Sharakan via mailmate: >>>>> On 30 Jan 2024, at 17:33, Bill Cole wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 2024-01-30 at 14:32:34 UTC-0500 (Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:32:34 +0100) >>>>>> Sven Klages <[email protected]> >>>>>> is rumored to have said: >>>>>> >>>>>> [...] >>>>>>> When using smart mailboxes as proposed in the comments of your bug >>>>>>> report, I do have one type/color per smart folder, that’s not the same >>>>>>> … did I get it right? >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes, but I think that you are missing the fact that you can create a >>>>>> smart mailbox aggregating the messages of other (colored-message) smart >>>>>> mailboxes. The messages keep the color assigned by the parent mailbox. >>>>> >>>>> Right, all you need to do is create smart mailboxes containing the >>>>> conditions you want for coloring the messages. Then, use the >>>>> Mailbox->Color submenu to choose a color for that mailbox, and also >>>>> select "Use Color in Message List". Your chosen color will be applied not >>>>> only to the messages in your smart mailbox, but also to the original >>>>> messages, wherever they reside. >>>>> >>>>> It's totally flexible and has been working great for me. >>>>> >>>>> -Eric > >>> -- -- LATEXT: Literature, music and visuals / Littérature, musique et graphisme - www.latext.com BETALOGUE: Blog - www.betalogue.com | Mastodon: @[email protected] FAUX AMIS : Site sur les faux amis anglais-français - www.fauxamis.fr | Mastodon: @[email protected] _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
