font size on sidebar

[David Lesher]

How do I increase the font size on the left sidebar?
A friend has eyes even worse than mine....



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[Vic Moz Garcia]

On 10/21/13 21:15, David Lesher wrote:
> How do I increase the font size on the left sidebar?
> A friend has eyes even worse than mine....

Install add-on: 'Theme Font & Size Changer'.

[Jim Porter]

On 10/21/2013 08:15 PM, David Lesher wrote:
> How do I increase the font size on the left sidebar?
> A friend has eyes even worse than mine....

Thunderbird *should* be taking the font size for UI elements from the
operating system's settings. If this isn't working for some reason,
please file a bug. We shouldn't be forcing users to tweak these settings
in multiple places.

- Jim

[The Real Bev]

On 10/21/2013 09:20 PM, Jim Porter wrote:

> On 10/21/2013 08:15 PM, David Lesher wrote:
>> How do I increase the font size on the left sidebar?
>> A friend has eyes even worse than mine....

Theme Font and Size Changer changes everything at once, unfortunately.
We want different sizes for different functions.

> Thunderbird *should* be taking the font size for UI elements from the
> operating system's settings. If this isn't working for some reason,
> please file a bug. We shouldn't be forcing users to tweak these settings
> in multiple places.

Amen, but that's the way it is anyway.

There are chunks of code to be added to the userChrome.css file that
change the fonts/sizes/colors of functions independently of the others.

http://edmullen.net/mozilla/moz_prefs.php probably provides all the
information needed to do what you want, plus a whole lot more.

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[Bob Henson]

Many of us want differing font sizes in different places. For reasons of
most efficient use of screen space and ease of use, I have thee
different font sizes for folders, message headers and message bodies -
none of which are the same as the system's settings. Having got
everything to a size and font my old eyes can handle, what would be
really useful is the ability to force all incoming messages to use the
same font and size regardless of the character set the incoming message
uses, rather than the current nightmare of having to have a setting for
each character set.

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[Ken Whiton]

*-* On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, at 01:15:29 +0000 (UTC),
*-* In Article <l44jjh$5ev$1...@reader1.panix.com>,
*-* David Lesher wrote
*-* About font size on sidebar

> How do I increase the font size on the left sidebar?

If you're referring to the section where accounts and folders are
listed, that's called the Folder Pane.

> A friend has eyes even worse than mine....

Changing the appearance (colors, fonts, etc.) of the Folder Pane
is done using the userChrome.css file (which doesn't exist by
default).

1. Leave TB open for the time being, so you can copy and paste
directly from this post into the userChrome.css file.

2. Navigate to your Thunderbird profile. If you don't know where
that is, see:
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird>

3. Within the profile folder, open (or create if it doesn't
exist) the chrome folder.

4. Within the chrome folder, open (or create if it doesn't
exist) the userChrome.css file, using your preferred text
editor.

5. If you are creating the file, enter the following text at the
beginning of the file:

/* Do not remove the @namespace line -- it's required for correct
functioning */
/* set default namespace to XUL */
@namespace
url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

6. Add the following text into the file:

/* Set Font Size In Folder Pane */

#folderTree >treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text {
font-size: 14pt !important; }

7. Close TBird.

8. Save the userChrome.css file, making sure that your editor
doesn't add an additional .txt (or any other) extension to the
name. After saving, leave the editor/file open.

9. Open TBird. If the font size in the Folder Pane is
satisfactory, close the editor/file that you left open at the
end of step 8. If not, repeat steps 6 through 9, trying
different font sizes, until you're satisfied with the results.

If after adjusting the font size(s), you find that the spacing
between the lines also needs adjusting, here's code to accomplish
that. Repeat the above process, adding this code to the file.

#folderTree >treechildren::-moz-tree-row {
height: 20px !important; }

Since I don't know what size or resolution monitor you use, the
20 pixel height specified is strictly a guess as to an appropriate
value. You'll probably have to adjust it to get an appearance that's
satisfactory.

Ken Whiton
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[Morgana]

On 21-Oct-2013 21:15, David Lesher wrote:
> How do I increase the font size on the left sidebar?
> A friend has eyes even worse than mine....
>
>
>

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/theme-font-size-changer/

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[Morgana]

also works with TB

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