custom colors (was Re: Gnus v5.4.4 is released)

[Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com>]

Sudish Joseph writes:
>> Rich Pieri writes:

>>> Uh-huh.  I set gnus-display-type to 'mono because the default colors are
>>> nigh-illegible and I do not want any colors anyway.

>>> customize uses the same nigh-illegible colors.

> `custom-background-mode'

> The function tries hard to guess correctly, help it by setting the variable.

I have to jump in here.  I will bet that the problem is not with
`custom-background-mode' guessing incorrectly.  I used to see the exact
same problem myself, and I had a black (#000000) background.  Some of the
default colors for `dark' are thoroughly unreadable on a black background.

I guess that one day, I will succumb to the inevitable and actually
create a .custom.el file (or wherever it saves its information).  Until
then, I continue to have X resources for faces, and the following lines
in my .gnus.el:

    (make-face 'gnus-header-content-face)
    (make-face 'gnus-header-from-face)
    (make-face 'gnus-header-name-face)
    (make-face 'gnus-header-newsgroups-face)
    (make-face 'gnus-header-subject-face)

Rich, you may want to try this yourself (unless you just don't like colors).

-- 
Colin