On Tue, 17 May 2016 18:37:58 +0100 Nick Warne <nick at linicks.net> wrote:

On Tue, 17 May 2016 18:26:29 +0100 Nick Warne <nick at linicks.net> wrote:

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I find that when opening a new tab, the colour of it changes to a sort of turquoise colour - which suggests it is in the background.

I do find it confusing - could it be possible to change the working tab to the default grey and the background tabs to the turquoise colour?

Just a suggestion.

If it doesn't seem to bother anybody else, can someone point me to the area of code so I can do a local patch.

Sorry, ignore the idiot - dillorc has it.

Actually, I can't get this to work - the same bg colours do not change - the text colour does though. Nick -- Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell." -- Doctor Who "Androids of Tara"

On Tue, 17 May 2016 19:05:34 +0000 eocene <eocene at gmx.com> wrote:

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 06:47:20PM +0100, Nick Warne wrote:

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Actually, I can't get this to work - the same bg colours do not change - the text colour does though.

Do the tab background prefs work at all for you?

Yes, they do now :)

I remember FLTK sometimes was stubborn about colors if it felt a foreground/background pair had too little contrast. (Also check that they aren't being set again farther down in dillorc.)

Thanks, I didn't thing of looking further down - the theme was setting it. All fixed now using: ui_tab_active_bg_color=lightgrey ui_tab_bg_color=#808080 Nick -- Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell." -- Doctor Who "Androids of Tara"

On Wed, 18 May 2016 18:52:13 +0000 eocene <eocene at gmx.com> wrote:

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All fixed now using:

ui_tab_active_bg_color=lightgrey ui_tab_bg_color=#808080

I wonder whether there'd be any value in printing a MSG complaining when dillorc sets something more than once (search_url excepted).

Actually, I am now using: ui_tab_active_fg_color=brown ui_tab_bg_color=#909090 which works great. AS to your question, what I don't understand is why there is a section for tab colours, and then later in the default theme section (which is active) more options for tab colour options? Perhaps move the 'stand-alone' tab colour options after the themes, so if the all the themes are #'ed out, these will take precedence? Or why have them at all? Nick -- Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell." -- Doctor Who "Androids of Tara"

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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 08:18:52PM +0100, Nick Warne wrote:

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AS to your question, what I don't understand is why there is a section for tab colours, and then later in the default theme section (which is active) more options for tab colour options?

Perhaps move the 'stand-alone' tab colour options after the themes, so if the all the themes are #'ed out, these will take precedence?

Or why have them at all?

That's a good point. It looks like they evolved suboptimally. First I was introducing color settings, and then Jorge made some themes, and a theme became default. I'll clean it up.

Hmm. I came up with something that makes it less inviting to set the individual preferences right there, but perhaps not as uninviting as I would prefer: # UI colors # Note that FLTK may sometimes override colors, generally for contrast and # readability. # # ui_fg_color, ui_main_bg_color, ui_text_bg_color, and ui_selection_color # map to concepts in the underlying FLTK toolkit which are described as: # "the default foreground color...used for labels and text", "default # background color", "the default background color for text, list, and # valuator widgets", and "the default selection/highlight color". They # sometimes have other uses in the more complex FLTK widgets. # # ui_button_highlight_color is the background used when the mouse cursor is # over a button. By default, this is a lightened version of the main # background color. # # ui_tab_active_fg_color and ui_tab_active_bg_color are used for the current # tab. By default, they are the main foreground color and the text background # color, respectively. # # ui_tab_fg_color and ui_tab_bg_color are used for the other tabs. By default, # they are the main foreground color and the main background color, # respectively. # # Note to packagers: leaving these variables for the system to guess # gives different results in different environments, so we played it safe # by defining the traditional colors. Please choose the color theme that # better fits your distro. # # Gray theme (traditional) # ...