On 07/03/2011 12:34 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > On 07/01/2011 07:19 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: >> Christopher Svanefalk wrote: >> >>> I just wanted to ask if someone has any advice to themes for Gnome2 (I >>> am running F14) that are reputed to be gentle on the eyes? >> I know you are looking for a full easy-eye theme, but... >> >> What I have done (in KDE), is to select any theme I like and to change >> the view background to #E0FFFF. This is a pale cyan that is supposed to >> be easy on the eyes and is roughly the colour of those old easy-eye >> paperback books that were once so popular back in the 1970s. >> > That is actually really nice...I just find it problematic that it does > not affect everything I supposed it should affect. My main wish is to > have it on the surfaces I spend most of my time looking at - input > fields. When I set this color as my default color for input fields in > gnome, I find that it correctly changes the appearance of Eclipse (and > that is good enough for me...but still), but forexample in Thunderbird > (which is what I am writing this from), the background remains white. > Why oh why? > > Best, > > Chris ...I guess I never learn to research before writing. It appears that some (if not all) programs with internal settings for appearance resort primarily to their own default settings rather than global settings (this seems to be the case with Thunderbird at least). Don't know if this can be overidden somehow. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
