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Jeff Layman
Mar 7, 2013, 3:47:36 PM3/7/13
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Is it possible to change the colour of the star in the "Starred" column?
A darker colour would stand out more. I can't see anything obvious to
amend in Config Editor or prefs.js.
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Jeff
A darker colour would stand out more. I can't see anything obvious to
amend in Config Editor or prefs.js.
--
Jeff
Ron K.
Mar 7, 2013, 6:36:48 PM3/7/13
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Jeff Layman on 3/7/2013 3:47 PM, keyboarded a reply:
theme appears to be rolled into the omni.ja file, access to insert
replacement graphics is more difficult than during early years of TB.
There are no config options, hidden or UI exposed to alter the
appearance. Add-on Theme developers can supply a different look.
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Ron K.
Who is General Failure, and why is he searching my HDD?
Kernel Restore reported Major Error used BSOD to msg the enemy!
> Is it possible to change the colour of the star in the "Starred" column?
> A darker colour would stand out more. I can't see anything obvious to
> amend in Config Editor or prefs.js.
>
The graphics for the star are embedded in the themes. Since the default
> A darker colour would stand out more. I can't see anything obvious to
> amend in Config Editor or prefs.js.
>
theme appears to be rolled into the omni.ja file, access to insert
replacement graphics is more difficult than during early years of TB.
There are no config options, hidden or UI exposed to alter the
appearance. Add-on Theme developers can supply a different look.
--
Ron K.
Who is General Failure, and why is he searching my HDD?
Kernel Restore reported Major Error used BSOD to msg the enemy!
Steve
Mar 8, 2013, 1:54:12 AM3/8/13
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Jeff Layman
Mar 8, 2013, 8:58:15 AM3/8/13
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Jeff
Mark Filipak
Mar 8, 2013, 12:18:14 PM3/8/13
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That star graphic is buried in TBird somewhere. If you can get a resource editor (a developer's tool that is sometimes released for public use for free) for the OS you're running (Windows GUI, the various X-Windows GUIs), you can change any graphic used in TBird's graphical user interface, including the color of that star. The trick is, finding the star in the TBird executable or one of the libraries. The resource editor should be able to help you find it, also.
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Axel Grude
Mar 12, 2013, 11:24:41 AM3/12/13
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On 08/03/2013 17:18, Mark Filipak wrote:
> That star graphic is buried in TBird somewhere. If you can get a resource editor (a
> developer's tool that is sometimes released for public use for free) for the OS you're
> running (Windows GUI, the various X-Windows GUIs), you can change any graphic used in
> TBird's graphical user interface, including the color of that star. The trick is,
> finding the star in the TBird executable or one of the libraries. The resource editor
> should be able to help you find it, also.
If you go that way, use DOM inspector to find out where it is. but generally that info
> That star graphic is buried in TBird somewhere. If you can get a resource editor (a
> developer's tool that is sometimes released for public use for free) for the OS you're
> running (Windows GUI, the various X-Windows GUIs), you can change any graphic used in
> TBird's graphical user interface, including the color of that star. The trick is,
> finding the star in the TBird executable or one of the libraries. The resource editor
> should be able to help you find it, also.
is at the forums article quoted before:
>> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2031971
>> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1528675
Remember that you can use css rules to restyle any visible aspect of the Thunderbird
User Interface; like web pages, and emails, the same engine is used for rendering the
program (Gecko). I quite like and prefer using userChrome.css as it supports
modification "out of the box" without any additional addon installed.
Mark Filipak
Mar 12, 2013, 7:49:02 PM3/12/13
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On 2013/3/12 11:24 AM, Axel Grude wrote:
> On 08/03/2013 17:18, Mark Filipak wrote:
>> That star graphic is buried in TBird somewhere. If you can get a resource editor (a
>> developer's tool that is sometimes released for public use for free) for the OS you're
>> running (Windows GUI, the various X-Windows GUIs), you can change any graphic used in
>> TBird's graphical user interface, including the color of that star. The trick is,
>> finding the star in the TBird executable or one of the libraries. The resource editor
>> should be able to help you find it, also.
> If you go that way, use DOM inspector to find out where it is.
A DOM inspector? For an email program? How?
> On 08/03/2013 17:18, Mark Filipak wrote:
>> That star graphic is buried in TBird somewhere. If you can get a resource editor (a
>> developer's tool that is sometimes released for public use for free) for the OS you're
>> running (Windows GUI, the various X-Windows GUIs), you can change any graphic used in
>> TBird's graphical user interface, including the color of that star. The trick is,
>> finding the star in the TBird executable or one of the libraries. The resource editor
>> should be able to help you find it, also.
> If you go that way, use DOM inspector to find out where it is.
> but generally that info is at the forums article quoted before:
>
>>> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2031971
>>> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1528675
flag.png not found.
Now what?
Mike Easter
Mar 12, 2013, 8:20:05 PM3/12/13
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Mark Filipak wrote:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserChrome.css userChrome.css in the chrome
folder is a CSS file that can be used to change the way Mozilla
applications' interfaces look. This file does not exist in a new
profile. You can create it manually.
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Mike Easter
> Axel Grude wrote:
>> Remember that you can use css rules to restyle any visible aspect of
>> the Thunderbird User Interface; like web pages, and emails, the same
>> engine is used for rendering the program (Gecko). I quite like and
>> prefer using userChrome.css as it supports modification "out of the
>> box" without any additional addon installed.
> userChrome.css not found.
>> Remember that you can use css rules to restyle any visible aspect of
>> the Thunderbird User Interface; like web pages, and emails, the same
>> engine is used for rendering the program (Gecko). I quite like and
>> prefer using userChrome.css as it supports modification "out of the
>> box" without any additional addon installed.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserChrome.css userChrome.css in the chrome
folder is a CSS file that can be used to change the way Mozilla
applications' interfaces look. This file does not exist in a new
profile. You can create it manually.
--
Mike Easter
Chris Ilias
Mar 12, 2013, 8:33:37 PM3/12/13
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On 2013-03-12 7:49 PM, Mark Filipak wrote:
> On 2013/3/12 11:24 AM, Axel Grude wrote:
>> On 08/03/2013 17:18, Mark Filipak wrote:
>>> That star graphic is buried in TBird somewhere. If you can get a
>>> resource editor (a
>>> developer's tool that is sometimes released for public use for free)
>>> for the OS you're
>>> running (Windows GUI, the various X-Windows GUIs), you can change any
>>> graphic used in
>>> TBird's graphical user interface, including the color of that star.
>>> The trick is,
>>> finding the star in the TBird executable or one of the libraries. The
>>> resource editor
>>> should be able to help you find it, also.
>> If you go that way, use DOM inspector to find out where it is.
>
> A DOM inspector? For an email program? How?
It's an extension.
> On 2013/3/12 11:24 AM, Axel Grude wrote:
>> On 08/03/2013 17:18, Mark Filipak wrote:
>>> That star graphic is buried in TBird somewhere. If you can get a
>>> resource editor (a
>>> developer's tool that is sometimes released for public use for free)
>>> for the OS you're
>>> running (Windows GUI, the various X-Windows GUIs), you can change any
>>> graphic used in
>>> TBird's graphical user interface, including the color of that star.
>>> The trick is,
>>> finding the star in the TBird executable or one of the libraries. The
>>> resource editor
>>> should be able to help you find it, also.
>> If you go that way, use DOM inspector to find out where it is.
>
> A DOM inspector? For an email program? How?
1. Go to Tools-->Add-ons. That will open the Add-ons Manager tab.
2. Along the left side, select the "Get Add-ons" panel. It should be the
top one.
3. In the search field on the top-right, type the following and press
<Enter>:
DOM
4. It should be the top search result. Along the right, there should be
an [Install] button for each search result. Click on the [Install]
button for DOM Inspector. Once it's finished installing, you may need to
restart Thunderbird.
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Chris Ilias <http://ilias.ca>
Mailing list/Newsgroup moderator
Ralph Fox
Mar 12, 2013, 11:50:49 PM3/12/13
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:49:02 -0400, Mark Filipak wrote:
> flag.png not found.
Thunderbird 17.0.3 for Windows...
The file "flag.png" is inside the file "omni.ja".
The file "omni.ja" is a ZIP file with a .ja extension, in the same
folder as "thunderbird.exe".
Unzip "omni.ja" and look in the two subfolders:
-- chrome\classic\skin\classic\messenger\icons
-- chrome\classic\skin\classic\aero\messenger\icons
--
Kind regards
Ralph
> flag.png not found.
Thunderbird 17.0.3 for Windows...
The file "flag.png" is inside the file "omni.ja".
The file "omni.ja" is a ZIP file with a .ja extension, in the same
folder as "thunderbird.exe".
Unzip "omni.ja" and look in the two subfolders:
-- chrome\classic\skin\classic\messenger\icons
-- chrome\classic\skin\classic\aero\messenger\icons
--
Kind regards
Ralph
Mike Easter
Mar 13, 2013, 12:54:33 AM3/13/13
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Ralph Fox wrote:
> The file "omni.ja" is a ZIP file with a .ja extension,
Here's a quaint note about how .jar became .ja
> The file "omni.ja" is a ZIP file with a .ja extension,
http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2011/11/16/omni-jar-to-become-omni-ja/
omni.jar to become omni.ja
Resource places like filext.com don't know that moz has borrowed the IBM
Tools Updater extension to counter the problem with Windows Restore
functions by making .jar .ja http://filext.com/file-extension/JA
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Mike Easter
Axel Grude
Apr 9, 2013, 9:16:04 AM4/9/13
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Subject: Re: Star colour - use a resource editor to change it
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:49:02 -0400
From: markfilipak.mozilla
To: support-thunderbird
As it is based on XUL (and rendered with the FIrefox Gecko engine), which is a
powerful dialect of XML / XHTML it has a document tree like any of the content (mails,
web pages) it can render. The Addon "DOM inspector" can be used both to investigate
the DOM tree in content (emails) and chrome (the application) context.
The power of addons being able to manipulate chrome context is super-awesome and
super-powerful, and useful not only for developers but also the _free_ user.
As regards manipulating the star image itself, of course that is one way to do it, but
it would probably be way easier to change the rule that points to it. Especially as
you will loose any changes you made to resources (images) as soon as tb updates
itself. userChrome.css is the golden bridge to unbridled customization.
hth
Axel
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:49:02 -0400
From: markfilipak.mozilla
To: support-thunderbird
> On 2013/3/12 11:24 AM, Axel Grude wrote:
>> On 08/03/2013 17:18, Mark Filipak wrote:
>>> That star graphic is buried in TBird somewhere. If you can get a resource editor (a
>>> developer's tool that is sometimes released for public use for free) for the OS you're
>>> running (Windows GUI, the various X-Windows GUIs), you can change any graphic used in
>>> TBird's graphical user interface, including the color of that star. The trick is,
>>> finding the star in the TBird executable or one of the libraries. The resource editor
>>> should be able to help you find it, also.
>> If you go that way, use DOM inspector to find out where it is.
>
> A DOM inspector? For an email program? How?
>
Thnderbird is just not "an email program" it is a XULrunner application as well.
>> On 08/03/2013 17:18, Mark Filipak wrote:
>>> That star graphic is buried in TBird somewhere. If you can get a resource editor (a
>>> developer's tool that is sometimes released for public use for free) for the OS you're
>>> running (Windows GUI, the various X-Windows GUIs), you can change any graphic used in
>>> TBird's graphical user interface, including the color of that star. The trick is,
>>> finding the star in the TBird executable or one of the libraries. The resource editor
>>> should be able to help you find it, also.
>> If you go that way, use DOM inspector to find out where it is.
>
> A DOM inspector? For an email program? How?
>
As it is based on XUL (and rendered with the FIrefox Gecko engine), which is a
powerful dialect of XML / XHTML it has a document tree like any of the content (mails,
web pages) it can render. The Addon "DOM inspector" can be used both to investigate
the DOM tree in content (emails) and chrome (the application) context.
The power of addons being able to manipulate chrome context is super-awesome and
super-powerful, and useful not only for developers but also the _free_ user.
As regards manipulating the star image itself, of course that is one way to do it, but
it would probably be way easier to change the rule that points to it. Especially as
you will loose any changes you made to resources (images) as soon as tb updates
itself. userChrome.css is the golden bridge to unbridled customization.
hth
Axel
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