[Conkeror] white-on-black colour schemes

[A.W.]

This sounds like a decent argument for an integrated mail reader, but
I should probably just set GNUS up...
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: trentbuck at gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)
> To: conkeror at mozdev.org
> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:03:41 +1000
> Subject: Re: [Conkeror] white-on-black colour schemes
> A.W. <gzeusmants at gmail.com> writes:
>>> I don't know about conkeror specifically, but I've noticed other gecko
>>> browsers get their form widget colour schemes from GTK,
>>> i.e. ~/.gtkrc-2.0.  Here's the white-on-black gtkrc I use:
>>>
>>>    http://cyber.com.au/~twb/Preferences/.gtkrc-2.0
>>>
>> Final question/problem. Viewing source on a web page still blasts me
>> with blinding whiteness
>
> Can't help there; I use w3m-el for "view source" functionality.
> Probably you can configure Conkeror to view source in emacsclient,
> rather than using a view-source: URL?
>
>> second only to my gmail which I am addicted to.
>
> You can use IMAP or POP to access gmail with a conventional MUA (which
> can be white-on-black).  JFGI for details.
>
>> No, it's not all that bad, but it's one more thing that breaks my
>> concentration, and does indeed hurt my eyes...
>
> As someone said on the Debian BTS: "would you stare at a light bulb for
> eight hours a day?  That's what a black-on-white backlit LCD amounts
> to."