Bug 4797

Summary:	Litehtml viewer renders black text on dark background
Product:	Claws Mail	Reporter:	mxyfugcu
Component:	Plugins/LiteHTML Viewer	Assignee:	users
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.2.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux

Description mxyfugcu 2024-04-17 13:42:47 UTC

When using the Litehtml-viewer plugin, the text is rendered as black, even in dark theme, making it difficult to read the email.

The litehtml email background should be rendered as a light color (maybe light grey for a dark theme and white for a light theme) or the litehtml email text should be made lighter to be readable against the dark background.

This should be done automatically, but I also saw no way in the claws-mail settings or the litehtml plugin settings to manually change these colors, which would also be useful (only for html view mode).

I don't know if this is a claws-mail or litehtml problem (or something else).

Comment 1 deviato 2024-04-18 09:58:58 UTC

I had the same problem and switched to claws-mail-fancy-plugin.
There you have the option to specify a custom stylesheet, here's an example:

html,body,table {
  font-family: LiberationSans;
  font-size: 13px;
  background: #2d2d2d;
  color: white;
}
a {
  color: #00e38f;
  text-decoration: none;
}