On Apr 7, 2011, at 5:30 PM, Frank D wrote: > 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.
Ancient chart fight! I see no reason not to support this minor improvement in the preferences experience. Of course, that's obvious since I wrote it in the first place 6 years ago and wasn't the one who removed it... ;) -Evan > > > -- > 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 >> >
