Color of "Unread" folders in TB3

[Fred Quist]

In Thunderbird 3, the color of unread folders is a fairly light blue.
Once a folder is selected, the text turns to bold black. Is there some
way to change the color of the unread folder - I find the light blue
somewhat difficult to read and certainly not as obvious as the bold
black (the default in TB2). I looked in the Configuration Editor but
couldn't readily identify the proper item to change.

Fred

[Nir]

Goto Tb profile folder.
Open (or create if doesn't exist) chrome folder.
Open (or create if doesn't exist) userChrome.css file in your word editor.
Put following css style in there

/* Make Folders containing Unread messages visually distinct from others */
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, hasUnreadMessages-true)
{ color: green !important; }

you can change 'color' to any other color.

[Cal Tinson]

On 2/9/2010 12:57 PM eastern, Nir wrote:

> Goto Tb profile folder.
> Open (or create if doesn't exist) chrome folder.
> Open (or create if doesn't exist) userChrome.css file in your word editor.
> Put following css style in there
>
> /* Make Folders containing Unread messages visually distinct from others */
> treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, hasUnreadMessages-true)
> { color: green !important; }
>
> you can change 'color' to any other color.

Hi, Nir - got the syntax to change the font size of menus, toolbars,
folder pane stuff, etc.? (As noted in one of the 3.0 docs, some older
css entries don't work.)

[Philip Rhoades]

Nir,

Where is this folder? In the thunderbird dir (Fedora 12 x86_64) I see only:

profiles.ini

Thanks,

Phil.

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[Roy Smith]

Well just open that in your text editor of choice and you will see the
path to the profile directory.

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Timestamp: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:10:47 PM

[Philip Rhoades]

Roy,

OK, after doing that, ALL the folders with unread mails turn green,
whereas only some of them were blue before (new mails since the last
view of the folder?).

[Cal Tinson]

Finally found it!!:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Pane_and_menu_fonts

[Nir]

> OK, after doing that, ALL the folders with unread mails turn green,

> whereas only some of them were blue before (new mails since the last
> view of the folder?).

In that case, instead of my previous css style code, use the following

/* Make Folders containing Unread messages visually distinct from others */

treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(hasUnreadMessages-true, newMessages-false)
{
color: green !important;
}

/* Change Folder Display to indicate New Message(s) has arrived */
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, newMessages-true)

{
color: red !important;
font-weight: bold !important;
}

[Philip Rhoades]

Nir,

Red is working but not green - looks like a folderNameCol error?

[Nir]

On Saturday 13 February 2010 10:11 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> In that case, instead of my previous css style code, use the following
>>
>> /* Make Folders containing Unread messages visually distinct from
>> others */
>> treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(hasUnreadMessages-true,
>> newMessages-false)
>> {
>> color: green !important;
>> }
>>
>> /* Change Folder Display to indicate New Message(s) has arrived */
>> treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, newMessages-true)
>>
>> {
>> color: red !important;
>> font-weight: bold !important;
>> }
>
>
> Red is working but not green - looks like a folderNameCol error?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.

Remove 'newMessages-false' and it should work.

/* Make Folders containing Unread_Messages visually distinct from others */

treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, hasUnreadMessages-true)
{
color: green !important;
}

/* Change Folder Display to indicate New Message(s) has arrived */

[Philip Rhoades]

Nir,

Thanks - it does work. However, newMessages-true is not quite what I
want - I would like "newMessages_since_last_time_i_clicked_on
folder-true" - is that possible?