A firefox secret

[Eur Ing Chris Green]

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