[MlMt] Colors in mailbox menu

Simon Kaplan simon at kaplan.id.au
Wed Oct 26 18:25:35 EDT 2022


Well, D’oh.  I was expecting something to happen to the messages, not 
the mailbox icon!  Didn’t even look there.  But now that I do, yes the 
colours of the icon do change.  That’s pretty cool.  Thanks John!

Cheers
Simon

On 27 Oct 2022, at 8:01, John Cooper wrote:

> Simon Kaplan wrote (at 2:47 PM on Wednesday, October 26, 2022):
>
>> Thanks for that.  What I want to know is, how do we use the colours 
>> menu?  Making selections doesn’t seem to do anything.
>
> I'm surprised. Is a mailbox selected? When I select a mailbox, then 
> choose a color from the Mailbox > Color menu, the symbol next to the 
> mailbox changes to that color.
>
> John
>
>> On 27 Oct 2022 at 07:40 +1000, John Cooper 
>> <mailmate2 at coopercontent.com>, wrote:
>>> Simon Kaplan wrote (at 2:19 PM on Wednesday, October 26, 2022):
>>>
>>>> In today’s release (5923) Benny says
>>>>
>>>> | New: On macOS 11+, the Mailbox menu includes a “Symbol” menu 
>>>> to make it easy to change the mailbox symbol used.
>>>> | This is very similar to how colors are handled.
>>>>
>>>> Where can I find something that explains how colours are handled? 
>>>> This seems very useful/interesting but I can’t find anything in 
>>>> the manual or mailing list except discussion of the hidden 
>>>> preference (which presumably isn’t it, because if it’s a hidden 
>>>> preference there wouldn’t be a menu option - or so I’m 
>>>> assuming).
>>>
>>> I think Benny simply means that you can select a symbol from the new 
>>> Mailbox > Symbol menu the same way that you can select a color from 
>>> the existing Mailbox > Color menu.
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