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Notational Velocity: modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application
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Customize link colors #283

Open oin opened 12 years ago

oin commented 12 years ago

Hi,

Would it be possible to customize link colors in plain text editing ? Having blue links doesn't fit every background color.

Thank you

scrod commented 12 years ago

Actually, the link color is determined automatically, based on the foreground and background colors. In any situation where a combination of blue (for example) against the background would result in unreadability, NV would have selected a different link color.

Do you want to be able to change the link color for aesthetic reasons, or are you finding that the color-picking algorithm doesn't result in optimal combinations? If it's the latter, would you mind 1) editing your issue or posting a different one and 2) providing screenshots?

oin commented 12 years ago

My opinion is that NV should allow to change the link colors rather than automatically setting it, otherwise the customisation options would be incomplete. People who want to conform NV's colors to their aesthetic preferences might not want to rely partly on some arbitrary setting (even if it's "objectively suited to the other user-chosen colors"). Example Aside from that, the current color-picking algorithm makes poor decisions in my case. For instance, my background color is rgb(190,182,157). When the text color is set to plain black, the link color is standard blue, which is hardly readable. In order to have a less offensive link color, I must set the text color to something lighter, making the normal text less readable.