Re: [Pan-users] Coloring read and unread articles differently

[Benjamin Esham]

Peter B. Steiger wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 10:53 -0500, Benjamin Esham wrote:
>
> > I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find it in
> > the archives... how can I make read and unread articles display in
> > different colors?
>
> I had to add  a line to header-pane.cc:
>
> ... I just hunted for the section that underlines unread messages, and
> added that "foreground" line with the color hardcoded to "red".  Maybe
> later I'll put in some preferences to pick a color, but just for a  
> quick
> fix it was easier to hard-code the red.

I'll try this, but I'd prefer a solution that doesn't involve hacking  
the source (since I'll just have to patch again once a newer version  
is released).  Also, unread headers are not underlined for me—they  
are not displayed any differently from read headers at all.

Thanks for the reply!

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