Since this thread got off topic, I feel less guilty about straying with it... On 16/8/24 04:15, melanie witt wrote:
On 8/15/24 03:57, smooney@redhat.com wrote: [...]
Firstly, gratitude for snipping. Since we're talking about things that happen on mailing lists, why is it that many here have held firmly onto the good old standard for responding in threaded context instead of top-posting, but at the same time, quote the entire message? When I have many emails to go through, if I have to scroll past a heap of quoted text I am far less likely to spend the time to bother with it, unless it's a topic I really want to read - not great for general information gathering. That's key, because there are heaps of useful nuggets on a list like this one. I actually prefer top-posting to this, because at least it is only the 'second' standard, rather than this third one.
The only gripe I have about Thunderbird is the lack of dead simple automatic dark theme for the message reading window (the rest of the UI
True for me too - I use dark mode everywhere I can, all the time.
does dark mode fine). I like to use light mode during the day and dark mode at night. I have tried DarkReader and it was OK but too clunky for
Same about DarkReader. I dropped the equivalent in Firefox too after it got clunky for me.
me. For reading plain text I just installed Dark Plain Text which handles automatic dark mode for reading plain text and it looks good but obviously doesn't cover HTML.
Oh wow, you've got me another step closer to the solution. Thanks! Greg.