Re: Any lefties around?

[Larry Ewing <lewing ximian com>]

On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 15:35, Ville Pätsi wrote:
> I'm righthanded, and I do it all the time. Not the current line though,
> but the paragraph I'm reading, it isn't necessarily a full paragraph,
> and I change/redo the selection every few seconds. This only happens
> when I have the mouse in my hand and I don't have anything to click with
> it. If I'm unable to highlight, I just move the cursor around, beyond my
> eye focus. It's impossible for me to hold a mouse and hold it still. I'm
> having actually trouble now because of it, since highlight is broken in
> evolution. When text is selected, the bg color changes but the text
> color doesn't, like in any other gtk+ program. And since black isn't
> really visible on dark blue, I can't see the text I'm reading.
> 

Actually it does change the text color.  It just changes it to
text[SELECTED] rather than fg[SELECTED] and your theme dosen't specify a
sane value for text[SELECTED].  Now why on earth the gtk text widgets
draw normal text as text[NORMAL] on base[NORMAL] but selected text as
fg[SELECTED] on bg[SELECTED] I have never been able to figure out.  Now
I'm willing to make gtkhtml and e-text follow that same broken
convention if someone can explain to me even the slightest reason for
it.  Until that happens, if I were you, I'd fix your theme to put
something other than black in text[SELECTED].

--Larry