On 04/29/16 06:39, Tim wrote:
.
I used to use Gnome, now I use Mate, but they both had (and Mate still
does), options to set your display*look* preferences (Mate has it in
the accessibility / universal access settings. Where you get a few
choices for low, normal, high contrast, and high contrast & inverse.
Gnome used to do it with Themes.
The idea is that it sets the basic desktop colour scheme for most things
(windows, menus, text foreground and backgrounds), and some desktops let
you set them with RGB sliders rather than just give you some presets.
However, you do come a cropper with some applications that either don't
use the desktop colours in a logical fashion, or their display section
takes their colours from the source of what they're displaying (such as
anything that shows HTML). Likewise, it's confusing if you're word
processing and including graphics. The printer is most likely to print
the text black on a white page, because you're*displaying* it in
inverse, not painting it in those colours. And judging how a graphic
fits into that scheme is difficult, too.
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Xfce has what are probably the same
settings options and I use all the
appropriate ones for high contrast, text
size, etc. Wherever possible I choose
text not icons and white on black for
the text. However all of that has little
effect on Thunderbird and Firefox, even
Midori and SeaMonkey which I also use
where Firefox fails for me.
The remaining problem is that the
Thunderbird message text area seems to
have grown smaller over the years.
The window has the usual needed
information at the top but in the center
there is a large block of double spaced
information much of which is already
available at the top and all is readily
available via menus provided. For me
that center third of the display is just
an annoyance, at least 7 of the 11 lines
of the space it takes I would like to
eliminate. Double clicking on the
message list [opening?] changes the
display and improves the space available
for the message text, I prefer not to do
that.
So I began looking for an alternative
e-mail application and thought Claws
might be a possibility but it presents a
different set of things to work around.
That and the fact that we are stuck with
a poor aspect ratio in the available
monitors. A larger monitor monitor gives
very little more room for text and I
tend to use only about 12 inches of
width for the message text to make it
easier for me to follow from line to
line with my vision ...
Bob
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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 FEDORA-23/64bit LINUX XFCE POP3
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