Using Qwit and a dark theme, can't see tweets

[bgilbert]

Hi,

First of all I'd like to say that I really enjoy using Qwit, it's a
fantastic piece of software, and I'm sorry to see your group has been
hijacked by a spammer.

I'm using Qwit in Ubuntu 9.04, and I recently set up a dark theme for
my desktop. The problem is that the OS default font is a very light
gray color, which is also being used by Qwit to display tweets. The
background for the tweets is also a white and light gray background
making the tweets completely unreadable. Is there any way to resolve
this issue, either changing the tweet background or the font color,
short of changing my theme? (I'm completely enamored with it)

Thanks in advance!
Bryan

[Artem Iglikov]

Hmm, I think we'll add the options to choose the background and font colors.

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[Roopesh Chander]

Bryan,

I'm able to change the background for the tweets in:
Options -> User interface -> Colors
(Mentions => reply messages; Common => other messages; The two colors
for each type are used alternatively while showing the tweets.)

Do you see that option too? I don't know since which release we have
that configurability.

And, thanks for all your appreciation for Qwit (though I've only added
bits and pieces).

Artem,

Looks like we already allow choosing of background colors (since r230),
but I don't know since which release. I don't think we needto/should
support configuring text color of the tweets since we only pick that off
the system style.

roop.

[Artem Iglikov]

Oops, Roopesh is right - the feature is already there :) And maybe the
text color is also should be included (system one / custom one), just
for a case.

[bgilbert]

Hi,

Thats great news to hear that you already have this implemented.
However, I've downloaded the latest version in the downloads section:
qwit-0.10-x86.tar.bz2, released on Oct. 5, and it appears that the
user interface section isn't included in that release. Under the
options section, there are currently three tabs: General, Connection,
and Authentication. Is this User Interface section located anywhere
else, or is there a newer version of qwit available that I can use?

Thanks!
Bryan

On Oct 24, 8:00 am, Artem Iglikov <artem.igli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oops, Roopesh is right - the feature is already there :) And maybe the
> text color is also should be included (system one / custom one), just
> for a case.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Roopesh Chander <r...@forwardbias.in> wrote:
>
> > Bryan,
>
> > I'm able to change the background for the tweets in:
> > Options -> User interface -> Colors
> > (Mentions => reply messages; Common => other messages; The two colors
> > for each type are used alternatively while showing the tweets.)
>
> > Do you see that option too? I don't know since which release we have
> > that configurability.
>
> > And, thanks for all your appreciation for Qwit (though I've only added
> > bits and pieces).
>
> > Artem,
>
> > Looks like we already allow choosing of background colors (since r230),
> > but I don't know since which release. I don't think we needto/should
> > support configuring text color of the tweets since we only pick that off
> > the system style.
>
> > roop.
>
> > On Saturday 24 October 2009 12:00 PM, Artem Iglikov wrote:
> >> Hmm, I think we'll add the options to choose the background and font colors.
>

> >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:26 PM, bgilbert <gilber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi,
>
> >>> First of all I'd like to say that I really enjoy using Qwit, it's a
> >>> fantastic piece of software, and I'm sorry to see your group has been
> >>> hijacked by a spammer.
>
> >>> I'm using Qwit in Ubuntu 9.04, and I recently set up a dark theme for
> >>> my desktop. The problem is that the OS default font is a very light
> >>> gray color, which is also being used by Qwit to display tweets. The
> >>> background for the tweets is also a white and light gray background
> >>> making the tweets completely unreadable. Is there any way to resolve
> >>> this issue, either changing the tweet background or the font color,
> >>> short of changing my theme? (I'm completely enamored with it)
>
> >>> Thanks in advance!
> >>> Bryan
>
> --

> Best regards, Artem Iglikovhttp://kiwi.kztechnical specialist

[Artem Iglikov]

Hi. The most feature-complete version is 1.0-alpha - try it.

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[Carlos Galisteo]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:29 PM, bgilbert <gilb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> options section, there are currently three tabs: General, Connection,
> and Authentication. Is this User Interface section located anywhere
> else, or is there a newer version of qwit available that I can use?

Why don't you try to install the Debian package? (built from svn) [1].
I think it'll work for you.

[1]http://packages.debian.org/sid/qwit

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[roop]

On Oct 25, 1:29 am, bgilbert <gilber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this User Interface section located anywhere
> else, or is there a newer version of qwit available that I can use?

Bryan, did you manage to get it installed and working fine?