Font and Color Settings
Font and color settings are controlled by a number of Font Dialogs, which
are accessed from the Fonts page of the
Settings Dialog. Some of the Font Dialogs are
accessible from an alternate location, as disclosed in the descriptions
that follow.
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Compose
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
and the text and panel colors to use for the main text area of the
Compose window. (The quoted message window uses
the Message font and color settings.)
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Folder tree
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
and the text and panel colors to use for the Folder
Tree.
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Headings
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
used to highlight section headings in dialogs. Many of the settings panels
(custom programs, fonts and colors, etc.) use this font setting.
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Help
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
and the panel color (the text color is currently ignored) for the help pages.
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Main
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
and the text and panel colors to use for the Main
Window panels and controls. Unless otherwise mentioned, these font and
color settings are also used for all other panels and controls.
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Menu
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes to
use for all menus.
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Message
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
and the text and panel colors to use for the text
browser (the WebKit browsers ignore the color settings). Unless otherwise
mentioned, these font and color settings are also used for all text input
fields and text display areas (but not for text labels).
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Message list
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
and the text and panel colors to use for the Message
List.
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Title
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
used to render the gradient title bar, usually seen at the top of a dialog.
For example, all the settings panels make use of this gradient title bar. Since
the gradient transitions from the foreground color to the background color, you
should make your foreground color setting for this very dark and the background
very light for the best effect. For Java 1.1.x users, the color value is
ignored and the gradient.jpg grapic image is used to determine the color.
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Change colors
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This button displays the Select a Font dialog which modifies the current
attribute values which are allowed to be changed. For example, only the
font attributes can be changed on menus, not colors. However, most other
settings allow both fonts and color attributes to be changed.
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Consolidate colors
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This Query Window allows you to change all of the color settings to
match the color settings of the Main Font Dialog.
Consolidate fonts
This Query Window allows you to change all of the font settings to
match the font settings of the Main Font Dialog.
Import
This button allows you to select a previously exported fonts and color settings
file into the current account. When the file dialog appears, select the settings
file and once you close the settings dialog, the new fonts and colors will take
affect.
Polarbar comes with settings files that are pre-configured to support a dark
mode effect. One of these files is specific to Windows (PBMDarkModeWindows.properties)
and another is for Mac OS X (PBMDarkModeOSX.properties). The reason for differences
has to do with the native rendering of buttons on each platform so these settings
files take that into account. You can find these files within the installed
directory structure if you used a package installer or directly in the base
directory if you used the zip/gz download. Linux users can use one of these to
start their own custom dark mode configuration.
Export
This button allows you to export the current fonts and color settings shown in
settings dialog to a file. This settings file can then be imported into another
account or even another installation of Polarbar Mailer. Click the button and
a file save dialog will allow you to place the settings file in a location of
your choosing and enter a name other than the default one if required.