Freron MailMate

Since the revamp of the message colouring system, moving from support for the hidden feature with Styles.plist to a Color option for mailboxes that can apply to their message list, we seem to have lost support for the proper inverting scheme when a given colored message is selected in the message list. Regardless of what the text color is for the message in the message list, when the message is selected in the list, the selection highlighting is the default accent colour, but the text itself stays in its original color, which poses serious readability issues for many colors.

This was discussed in Ticket #3147 and back then, Benny restored older code that would systematically use the message's own color as selection highlighting for the selected line AND invert the colored text itself to white. I believe that is still the right way to proceed here, even if it means a mishmash of selection highlighting colors when several messages are selected at the same time.

Now that message coloring is an integral part of the MailMate mailbox user interface, I believe this issue should be settled by reverting to the text color inverting to white and the selection highlighting being the color of the underlying message color in the list.

I have tested a few older builds (from earlier in the fall) and they suffer from the same flaw. So I am not sure exactly when the regression was introduced. Possibly right when support for Styles.plist was abandoned.

Thanks.