Re: The Agent now downloading gigs of old articles...

[kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com writes:
>
>> and I fiddled a little more.  The font is now applied to undownloaded,
>> not downloaded, articles so that should help with much of the
>> multiplexing.  I've also created three faces so that undownloaded
>> articles still provide a visual clue to the article's score.
>
> That's nice, but it's now using (for me) white on Wheat1 on
> undownloaded articles.  (And why is it called "uncached"?)  You
> should differentiate between dark and light screens when doing
> colors, and specify both foreground and background, if you want to
> change the background color.
>
> -- 
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
>    larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

white on Wheat1 ?? - yuck.  OK, how about your color scheme except
that we replace darkslategray with cyan4 as my eyes have a hard time
distinquishing between black and slate gray?  I can't comment on the
light gray for the dark background as I can't figure out how to invert
my video.

As for uncached, well I'd been reading too many old articles
suggesting that the cache and agent should be merged.  Personally, I
also prefer uncached as a word than undownloaded or unfetched.

If anyone wants to try an alternative color scheme, here's one:

(defface gnus-summary-high-uncached-face
   '((((class color)
       (background light))
      (:bold t :foreground "cyan4" :bold nil))
     (((class color) (background dark))
      (:bold t :foreground "LightGray" :bold nil))
     (t (:inverse-video t :bold t)))
  "Face used for high interest uncached articles.")

(defface gnus-summary-low-uncached-face
   '((((class color)
       (background light))
      (:italic t :foreground "cyan4" :bold nil))
     (((class color) (background dark))
      (:italic t :foreground "LightGray" :bold nil))
     (t (:inverse-video t :italic t)))
  "Face used for low interest uncached articles.")

(defface gnus-summary-normal-uncached-face
   '((((class color)
       (background light))
      (:foreground "cyan4" :bold nil))
     (((class color) (background dark))
      (:foreground "LightGray" :bold nil))
     (t (:inverse-video t)))
  "Face used for normal interest uncached articles.")

Kevin