[ale] Changing Thunderbird 1.5 font color.

[Jim]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 07:10 -0400, Jim wrote:
>   
>> I just installed Thunderbird 1.5.  It has some nice features, but my old 
>> eyes have trouble reading light gray on a white background.  I can't 
>> seem to find a way to make the text of received messages darker.  Has 
>> anyone unlocked the secret?
>>     
>
> Cataract surgery :)
>
> edit->preferences->display has options on forwarded text font color (and
> for html) but no general text color for just normal messaging. What does
> work is to change from fixed to variable font. It still leaves the
> attached signature block in gray but at least the message body is in
> black.
>
> That's a pretty glaring omission of usability IMO. Thunderbird really
> needs the ability to adjust the text to page contrast for visually
> impaired support. There are a lot of things that OSS is lacking in that
> area.
>   
>> Thanks,
>> Jim.
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LOL, thanks.  I'll take that suggestion under advisement.  I agree, I'll 
switch to variable font, but I'm kinda partial to fixed since "table" 
data is sometimes unreadable.

Jim.