[Pan-users] Colorizing header subjects

[Bobby D. Bryant]

On 2003.07.30 15:28, Charles Kerr wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:48:53PM -0600, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:

> > 3) Very minor compared to the other two, but still somewhat
> > annoying, for some reason the article's subject line is 
> displayed > > in a different
> > color than the text in the Score/Lines/Author/Dates columns, if no
> > scoring colorization apples.  Is there some reason for that column
> to
> > be a different color?  (BTW, I do remember noticing this change in
> the
> > other .9x releases that I tried, .90 and .92 IIRC.)
>
> Hmm, can't reproduce; do you have `color subject column' clicked on
> in your scoring prefs?

Same thing in 0.14.0.94

I do have "color subject column clicked", and did on previous versions 
as well.  This is a change in behavior since version 0.14.0.

I notice in the same dialog window that the color specifications skip 
from -1 to +1, i.e. none of them specify the color for score=0.  Is 
this a change since v. 0.14.0?  It looks like articles with score=0 are 
being colorized with some arbitrary color, if you have the box 
checked.  (BTW, my header subjects are now the same color as all the 
columns in the groups pane, rather than the color of the "Lines", 
"Author", and "Date" columns in the header pane.  I don't know why they 
aren't all the same by default.  Are they picking up different GTK+ 
theme specifications?)

Should the +1 .. +4999 group be changed to 0 .. +4999?  Or better yet, 
add a new color category for score=0 only?

[Warning: Feature Request Alert!]

What would *really* be nice would be to ditch the hard-coded color 
categories and handle them with filters.  E.g., add a filter option of 
"score is in range [x] and [y], inclusive", and add a rule option of 
"set article color to [color dialog]".

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Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas