Colored weekends

[Restorm]

Is there any way to get Saturday and Sunday to always appear with a
different background color from the weekdays?

[Marcel Stör]

On 01.07.11 19:49, Restorm wrote:
> Is there any way to get Saturday and Sunday to always appear with a
> different background color from the weekdays?

I got this automatically for free when I installed Lightning ;-)
In all views weekends have a gray background while the other days have a
white one.

Cheers,
Marcel

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[WLS]

On 07/03/2011 10:59 AM, Marcel Stör wrote:
> On 01.07.11 19:49, Restorm wrote:
>> Is there any way to get Saturday and Sunday to always appear with a
>> different background color from the weekdays?
>
> I got this automatically for free when I installed Lightning ;-)
> In all views weekends have a gray background while the other days have a
> white one.
>
> Cheers,
> Marcel
>

Interesting. The days of the previous month show as gray in month view,
weekends are white, except for today 03-July-2011, which has an ivory
background in my Lightning.

Weekends are white in Week and Multiweek views.

Lightning 1.0b4, Thunderbird 5.0, openSUSE 11.3

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[Peter Lairo]

On Fr. 01.07.2011 19:49, Restorm wrote:
> Is there any way to get Saturday and Sunday to always appear with a
> different background color from the weekdays?

Yes, there is: Tools / Options / Lightning / Workweek
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[Ann Watson]

On 03/07/2011 2:14 PM, Peter Lairo wrote:
> On Fr. 01.07.2011 19:49, Restorm wrote:
>> Is there any way to get Saturday and Sunday to always appear with a
>> different background color from the weekdays?
>
> Yes, there is: Tools / Options / Lightning / Workweek

It's: Tools/Options/Lightning/Views/Workweek in my Tbird 5.0

AW

[Tony Mechelynck]

On 03/07/11 17:57, WLS wrote:

> On 07/03/2011 10:59 AM, Marcel St�r wrote:
>> On 01.07.11 19:49, Restorm wrote:
>>> Is there any way to get Saturday and Sunday to always appear with a
>>> different background color from the weekdays?
>>
>> I got this automatically for free when I installed Lightning ;-)
>> In all views weekends have a gray background while the other days have a
>> white one.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marcel
>>
>
> Interesting. The days of the previous month show as gray in month view,
> weekends are white, except for today 03-July-2011, which has an ivory
> background in my Lightning.
>
> Weekends are white in Week and Multiweek views.
>
> Lightning 1.0b4, Thunderbird 5.0, openSUSE 11.3
>

Interesting. Could be theme-dependent. Do you use the default theme, or
something else? Or maybe you changed your Preferences, saying that you
work *only* on weekends? ;-)

I use openSUSE 11.4 (which was released on March 10, and 12.1 is
scheduled for November 10 BTW), SeaMonkey 2.4a1, Lightning 1.1a1pre, and
the EarlyBlue theme (which AFAIK doesn't support Thunderbird). I see the
following backgrounds:

- Selected day: pale yellow (changes by clicking a different day, or the
word "Today" above the grid or one of the triangles on both sides of it)
- Today, if not selected: pale blue
- Other workdays (of current month if Month view): white
- Other rest days (of current month if Month view): very light grey
- Days of a different month (only in Month view): light grey

The "very light grey" of the rest days seems to combine with the "pale
yellow" of the selected day, making it look more "dirty". But hard to tell.

In addition, "today", and its weekday name at top of the grid, always
have a light blue border even if selected.

"Current" month is the month containing the "selected" day; it may or
may not be the month containing "today".

Best regards,
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[WLS]

Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 03/07/11 17:57, WLS wrote:

Upon closer inspection, using the default theme, I see what you see for
colors, although they are hard to distinguish on my monitor. Perhaps I
need to try adjusting brightness and contrast a bit.

[Restorm]

On 7/3/2011 2:14 PM, Peter Lairo wrote:
> On Fr. 01.07.2011 19:49, Restorm wrote:
>> Is there any way to get Saturday and Sunday to always appear with a
>> different background color from the weekdays?
>
> Yes, there is: Tools / Options / Lightning / Workweek

Thanks, but the light gray and the light blue are barely distinguishable
from each other on my monitor. I was hoping to be able to choose the
background myself, so I could define a color that would make the
weekends much more apparent (such as pink).

[Peter Lairo]

You might have to create/edit one of these files:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Thunderbird_Configuration_Files

Or try to adjust you monitor to show more contrast/brightness.

[Restorm]

On 7/11/2011 12:14 PM, Peter Lairo wrote:
> On Tue. 5.7.2011 15:33, Restorm wrote:
>> On 7/3/2011 2:14 PM, Peter Lairo wrote:
>>> On Fr. 01.07.2011 19:49, Restorm wrote:
>>>> Is there any way to get Saturday and Sunday to always appear with a
>>>> different background color from the weekdays?
>>>
>>> Yes, there is: Tools / Options / Lightning / Workweek
>> Thanks, but the light gray and the light blue are barely distinguishable
>> from each other on my monitor. I was hoping to be able to choose the
>> background myself, so I could define a color that would make the
>> weekends much more apparent (such as pink).
>
> You might have to create/edit one of these files:
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Thunderbird_Configuration_Files
>
>
> Or try to adjust you monitor to show more contrast/brightness.

Thanks, but I don't think I'd want to mess with that: too dangerous,
given my level of ignorance. I just wish the developers would give us a
little control over the color palette.

[Tony Mechelynck]

On 12/07/11 15:26, Restorm wrote:
> On 7/11/2011 12:14 PM, Peter Lairo wrote:

[...]

>> Or try to adjust you monitor to show more contrast/brightness.
> Thanks, but I don't think I'd want to mess with that: too dangerous,
> given my level of ignorance. I just wish the developers would give us a
> little control over the color palette.

Adjusting your monitor is a simple thing; it varies from one monitor to
the next, but usually it is done by means of one or more pushbuttons
and/or turning knobs under your display screen itself. The worst that
can happen is that you might turn the monitor off by using the on/off
button, pressing the same button again will usually turn it back on.

Another possibility is to change the theme. There are a lot of themes
available at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/themes/ —
maybe you can find one which pleases you better than the default theme.

Finally, the developers did give us full control over all aspects of the
display by means of user CSS — you can create two style sheets named
userChrome.css and userContent.css in the chrome/ subfolder of your
profile — but I suppose that if you feel it too dangerous to even try
the adjustment knobs under your display screen, this is definitely not
for you.

Best regards,
Tony.
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[Restorm]

On 7/17/2011 7:49 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 12/07/11 15:26, Restorm wrote:
>> On 7/11/2011 12:14 PM, Peter Lairo wrote:
> [...]
>>> Or try to adjust you monitor to show more contrast/brightness.
>> Thanks, but I don't think I'd want to mess with that: too dangerous,
>> given my level of ignorance. I just wish the developers would give us a
>> little control over the color palette.
>
> Adjusting your monitor is a simple thing; it varies from one monitor to
> the next, but usually it is done by means of one or more pushbuttons
> and/or turning knobs under your display screen itself. The worst that
> can happen is that you might turn the monitor off by using the on/off
> button, pressing the same button again will usually turn it back on.
>
> Another possibility is to change the theme. There are a lot of themes

> available at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/themes/ �

> maybe you can find one which pleases you better than the default theme.
>
> Finally, the developers did give us full control over all aspects of the

> display by means of user CSS � you can create two style sheets named

> userChrome.css and userContent.css in the chrome/ subfolder of your

> profile � but I suppose that if you feel it too dangerous to even try

> the adjustment knobs under your display screen, this is definitely not
> for you.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.

I think you're assuming I've got a desktop computer with a monitor.
Since this isn't the 90's, I've got a laptop, and it doesn't have knobs.
But I wasn't aware that TBird themes affected Lightning, too, so that's
valuable information. Thanks.