I took a stroll through history and found that DefaultBackgroundColor was added in http://hg.adium.im/adium-old/rev/6b2900ffc8c6 and removed in http://hg.adium.im/adium-old/rev/574682ce71a2. The wiki page's first rev is a few months after that latter commit.
-- Frank On 2011-04-05, at 10:26 PM, Matthew wrote: > As long as I can remember, > http://trac.adium.im/wiki/CreatingMessageStyles has contained: > > DefaultBackgroundColor is the hex value of the background color. This > does not actually affect your style but DOES display in the > preferences window; properly setting it improves the user experience > by having the default color they see match the default color of the > background color colorwell. This can be done on a per-variant basis > (see note below). If you do not include DefaultBackgroundColor then > the background color is assumed to be white (FFFFFF). > > I don't think this actually exists in Adium right now, and I don't > recall ever seeing it work in a message style. Does anyone know if it > used to work? At this point I'm inclined to close the relevant ticket > (http://trac.adium.im/ticket/10478) and remove references to > DefaultBackgroundColor from the wiki. > > > > Similarly, I suspect the following info from the wiki is vaporware: > > Per-variant keys may be created by appending ":VARIANTNAME" to the > key. For example, to set a default background color for your variant > "Black Version.css", which would display as "Black Version" in the > menu, you set the key {{{DefaultBackgroundColor:Black Version}}} to > the color (perhaps 000000) as a string. When looking for the settings > for a variant, the variant-specific version is tried first. If none is > found, the general style setting is tried. If no general setting is > found, the default value is used. > > This functionality sounds like it could be pretty useful, but I'll > probably just remove this from the wiki unless someone is actually > interested in coding it. If you are, just let me know and I'll move > this text from the wiki to a ticket. > > > > FWIW, there's already at least one precedent for this sort of > documented but missing functionality: > http://trac.adium.im/ticket/10480. > > > -- > > Matthew >
