On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:57:28PM +1030, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 08:13 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I have a vision problem and the white on black seems best for me. > > Have you set an overall system theme to suit yourself? And would that > not also colour the default plain text versions of mail in the same > manner, so you wouldn't need to bother with HTML mail? > > Just asking for the sake of curiosity, because that sort of thing ought > to be doable for the user, without causing them any grief. Personally I > hate 100% black on 100% white, for reading mail, though don't really > want the complete opposite, either. > > Older versions of Linux did let you tweak GUI palettes, etc., with an > editor, quite easily. You had more than just the choice of several > prepared themes. > What's this about "Older versions of Linux did let you ....", it's just as possible now if you get away from the default Gnome/KDE desktops. I'm running fvwm2 on this FC6 system and have all the 'old fashioned', very simple, ways to set colours etc. -- Chris Green