I just upgraded to Pidgin 2.3...is there a way in the gtkrc (or elsewhere) to revert the colors of screennames/aliases on message tabs to the 2.2 (and previous) setting? It used to be that if you had unread messages in a tab, the title of that tab (the screenname or alias) would be bolded and colored red, rather than plain black text. I find the contrast of this to be much better than the dark blue that it is now. Is there a way to change this back so that it is red instead of blue?
Also - is there a way in the gtkrc to revert the group headings so that they are a different background color instead of white? Again, I've found the contrast to make things easier to quickly see on the screen.
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No, there is currently not gtkrc setting which can change the tab colors. The change was made to unify the meaning of the colors in the tabs. Currently red means 'a message' and blue means 'a message to you' whereas previously red meant 'a message to you' in an IM and 'a message' in a chatroom and blue meant 'a message to you' in a chatroom.
There is likewise not a gtkrc setting to rever the group header changes, but the required code changes are the removal of one line (if you want to remove the underline) and the uncommenting of one line (if you want the background color back). If you search the gtkblist.c revision history for underline (and maybe Gossip) you should be able to find the change easily enough.
Neither of these settings exactly lends themselves to gtkrc settings unfortunately.
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That's unfortunate - I'd definitely prefer red as the "message to you received" in chat AND IM, and blue as the "message in chat"...the contrast is just much lower with the way it is now.
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Do you actually want the colors switched? Or do you just not much like our current blue? If we picked a higher contrast blue but left the meanings as is would that satisfy you? There has been some talk about doing that (as a precursor to actually making them user configurable).
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The color on the tab I can live with but the underline thing for the groups is really awful to look at. I can't think of any other interface that does things like that and the lack of contrast makes things as easy to look through as a text file.
I'd love to just build a version that changes that but unfortunately the build instructions for Windows are really awful and I cannot get it to work and neither can several others that I've spoken to.
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The initial commit message for the group header change listed a number of other IM clients that do this actually, but that's not the point. This change (as well as the tab color change) have been largely positive and of the two the tab color change has brought more comments than this one has, the tab color thing is looking to be unresolvable (as it boils down to a personal preference) the group header thing seems to almost universally be a well received change. Not that that much matters to the people who don't like (and that's just fine).
The Windows build directions are not at all awful they are actually quite explicit and direct, there are just a lot of steps to follow, steps that most people manage to screw up or miss parts of. There is also the build environment fetcher which is supposed to handle it all for you.
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I like the underline thing. It is now better to see the areas of my groups. I thing that this solution is much more better than just background (my suggestion). If you scroll buddy list you are only looking for line to know that you are in other section (group).
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I'm not sure if AdiumX still does this, but they had a user-settable feature where you could tell it to 'stagger-color' the contacts (my quick term for it, since I don't remember the name for the option off the top of my head) - not the group headers. Basically, every other contact would be inversed (white text on a black line, rather than black text on a white line). Would something like that help with group readability?
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I just upgraded to Pidgin 2.3...is there a way in the gtkrc (or elsewhere) to revert the colors of screennames/aliases on message tabs to the 2.2 (and previous) setting? It used to be that if you had unread messages in a tab, the title of that tab (the screenname or alias) would be bolded and colored red, rather than plain black text. I find the contrast of this to be much better than the dark blue that it is now. Is there a way to change this back so that it is red instead of blue?
Also - is there a way in the gtkrc to revert the group headings so that they are a different background color instead of white? Again, I've found the contrast to make things easier to quickly see on the screen.
Yeah I'm wondering about this myself.
No, there is currently not gtkrc setting which can change the tab colors. The change was made to unify the meaning of the colors in the tabs. Currently red means 'a message' and blue means 'a message to you' whereas previously red meant 'a message to you' in an IM and 'a message' in a chatroom and blue meant 'a message to you' in a chatroom.
There is likewise not a gtkrc setting to rever the group header changes, but the required code changes are the removal of one line (if you want to remove the underline) and the uncommenting of one line (if you want the background color back). If you search the gtkblist.c revision history for underline (and maybe Gossip) you should be able to find the change easily enough.
Neither of these settings exactly lends themselves to gtkrc settings unfortunately.
That's unfortunate - I'd definitely prefer red as the "message to you received" in chat AND IM, and blue as the "message in chat"...the contrast is just much lower with the way it is now.
Do you actually want the colors switched? Or do you just not much like our current blue? If we picked a higher contrast blue but left the meanings as is would that satisfy you? There has been some talk about doing that (as a precursor to actually making them user configurable).
The color on the tab I can live with but the underline thing for the groups is really awful to look at. I can't think of any other interface that does things like that and the lack of contrast makes things as easy to look through as a text file.
I'd love to just build a version that changes that but unfortunately the build instructions for Windows are really awful and I cannot get it to work and neither can several others that I've spoken to.
The initial commit message for the group header change listed a number of other IM clients that do this actually, but that's not the point. This change (as well as the tab color change) have been largely positive and of the two the tab color change has brought more comments than this one has, the tab color thing is looking to be unresolvable (as it boils down to a personal preference) the group header thing seems to almost universally be a well received change. Not that that much matters to the people who don't like (and that's just fine).
The Windows build directions are not at all awful they are actually quite explicit and direct, there are just a lot of steps to follow, steps that most people manage to screw up or miss parts of. There is also the build environment fetcher which is supposed to handle it all for you.
I like the underline thing. It is now better to see the areas of my groups. I thing that this solution is much more better than just background (my suggestion). If you scroll buddy list you are only looking for line to know that you are in other section (group).
I'm not sure if AdiumX still does this, but they had a user-settable feature where you could tell it to 'stagger-color' the contacts (my quick term for it, since I don't remember the name for the option off the top of my head) - not the group headers. Basically, every other contact would be inversed (white text on a black line, rather than black text on a white line). Would something like that help with group readability?