Replacement for Quote Colors

[Roger Fink]

Even though I was able to install it by tweaking install.rdf, the Quote
Colors extension no longer works properly in later versions of
Thunderbird, such as 24.8.0. I was unable to find any similar options in
AoM.org and I'm sorry to discover it is not being maintained.

Is anyone aware of another extension that includes the same features or,
barring that, a code fix for userchrome.css?

By the way, I tried to post this on Saturday two weeks ago and it never
made it.

[Big_Al]

I have this in my userContent.css file, same folder. I think the last lines are to make the /*text*/ work properly

/* Quote Levels Colors */
blockquote[type=cite] {
color: navy !important; background-color: RGB(245,245,245) !important;
}
blockquote[type=cite] blockquote {
color: maroon !important; background-color: RGB(235,235,235) !important;
}
blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote {
color: green !important; background-color: RGB(225,225,225) !important;
}
blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote {
color: purple !important; background-color: RGB(215,215,215) !important;
}
blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote blockquote {
color: teal !important; background-color: RGB(205,205,205) !important;
}

/* remove the / * or _ tags from news text messages */
..moz-txt-tag { display: none; }

[Roger Fink]

If it works, this is like winning the lottery. I'll try it with your
color scheme first.

[NewComer]

??? Been using Quote Colors 0.3 in TB since J.C. was a cowboy and now in
TB 38 beta and haven't had any problems.

[NewComer]

Forgot to mentioned Last Updated: Monday, December 08, 2014.

[Big_Al]

Yep, I think the colors you can fix. :-)

[Caver1]

Hasn't worked for me in TB 31.

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[WaltS48]

Why is it needed?

I see color bars along the left side of posts, each a different color
depending on the quantity of quoted content.

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[NewComer]

I remember quite a while back when I got an extension not compatible
thingy and changed the rtf max ver to 99.0 re-installed and been working
fine since.

[NewComer]

On 12-Apr-2015 16:24, WaltS48 wrote:
> On 04/12/2015 04:09 PM, Caver1 wrote:
>> On 04/12/2015 03:06 PM, NewComer wrote:
>>> On 12-Apr-2015 13:56, Roger Fink wrote:
>>>> Even though I was able to install it by tweaking install.rdf, the Quote
>>>> Colors extension no longer works properly in later versions of
>>>> Thunderbird, such as 24.8.0. I was unable to find any similar
>>>> options in
>>>> AoM.org and I'm sorry to discover it is not being maintained.
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone aware of another extension that includes the same features
>>>> or,
>>>> barring that, a code fix for userchrome.css?
>>>>
>>>> By the way, I tried to post this on Saturday two weeks ago and it never
>>>> made it.
>>>
>>> ??? Been using Quote Colors 0.3 in TB since J.C. was a cowboy and now in
>>> TB 38 beta and haven't had any problems.
>>>
>>
>> Hasn't worked for me in TB 31.
>>
>
> Why is it needed?
>
> I see color bars along the left side of posts, each a different color
> depending on the quantity of quoted content.
>

The good thing about it, is the option not to show signature.

[Ron K.]

This code is what the extension applied, saving users from rolling there
own content file. There are some additional tweaks, such as margin
modifications, that can be added to these basic restylings.

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[Caver1]

On 04/12/2015 04:24 PM, WaltS48 wrote:
> On 04/12/2015 04:09 PM, Caver1 wrote:
>> On 04/12/2015 03:06 PM, NewComer wrote:
>>> On 12-Apr-2015 13:56, Roger Fink wrote:
>>>> Even though I was able to install it by tweaking install.rdf, the Quote
>>>> Colors extension no longer works properly in later versions of
>>>> Thunderbird, such as 24.8.0. I was unable to find any similar options in
>>>> AoM.org and I'm sorry to discover it is not being maintained.
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone aware of another extension that includes the same features or,
>>>> barring that, a code fix for userchrome.css?
>>>>
>>>> By the way, I tried to post this on Saturday two weeks ago and it never
>>>> made it.
>>>
>>> ??? Been using Quote Colors 0.3 in TB since J.C. was a cowboy and now in
>>> TB 38 beta and haven't had any problems.
>>>
>>
>> Hasn't worked for me in TB 31.
>>
>
> Why is it needed?
>
> I see color bars along the left side of posts, each a different color
> depending on the quantity of quoted content.
>

Why do you need the colored bars?

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[Caver1]

I always check the install.rdf of my extensions.

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Caver1

[WaltS48]

So I can see who said what in a post, possibly know where to snip in a
follow-up. They are there by default.

The post I an replying to has 4 quotes, and will have 5 when I see this
one posted.

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Keep your software updated or, "It can happen to you..."

[Caver1]

I like Quote Colors for the same thing. Not needed by helpful.

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Caver1

[Roger Fink]

Actually, sorry to say I haven't been able to get this to work,
including when I disabled all extensions, and tried displaying the email
thread in both html & plain text. I'm wondering if perhaps on your
computer you could get the actual extension to work, as claimed by
another poster, and don't really need the userContent entry,

[Roger Fink]

The margin content is the only thing that worked for me when I installed
the extension (I actually prefer the conventional ">>>" display). It's
the absence of colored background and text that's the problem.

[WaltS48]

Do you want a colored background for plain text messages and see the
text in a different color?

Try Options > Display, under "Plain Text Messages" you can change the
Style, Size and Color of quoted text messages.

To change the background color of the Message Pane use Options > Display
> Colors and change the color of the background under *Text and
Background*. You can also play with text color there.

[Ron K.]

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote {
margin: 2px 2px 2px 5px !important;
border-width: 0px 0px 0px 2px !important; border-style: solid !important;
padding: 2px 2px 2px 5px !important; color: #505070 !important; }

In this selection from my file I allow only the left quoteline, revised
the quote level indent, and adjusted white space between quote levels.
There are other line styles available in CSS, but I stayed with basic solid.

[Tanstaafl]

On 4/12/2015 8:24 PM, WaltS48 <thali...@EVOMERaim.com> wrote:
> On 04/12/2015 08:04 PM, Caver1 wrote:

>> Why do you need the colored bars?

> So I can see who said what in a post, possibly know where to snip in a
> follow-up. They are there by default.
>
> The post I an replying to has 4 quotes, and will have 5 when I see this
> one posted.

I see them all with different colors, and I don't have 'Quote Colors'
Addon installed...

[Big_Al]

I just renamed my userContent file and restarted TB. The vertical colored bars are still in TB, but I've just lost the
background shading. So by default the quote colors work, only on the bars and not the shaded background.

[Big_Al]

I just disabled my userContent and I do think it works by default now. I have a lot of userChrome / Content changes
that I think have followed me from back in TB3 days. I disabled each in userChrome one by one to see if they still did
anything and was able to weed out about 5 that did nothing now. But I like the background shading my content does so
I'll keep mine.

Hey this is the fun of Mozilla customizations. You get what YOU like.

[Roger Fink]

I experience the exact same thing so I infer from that that your
userContent.css is alive and kicking. Mine should work, so I'll keep at it.

[Big_Al]

Yes, it seems to me that the default TB highlights quotes with only the color vertical bars and on both sides of the
quotes. After looking at my userContent.css, I can see all that it does is add background and text color to the mix.
Someone else posted margins and padding too.
The name is case sensitive I think, you might want to check that.

[s|b]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 20:24:31 -0400, WaltS48 wrote:

> > Why do you need the colored bars?

> So I can see who said what in a post, possibly know where to snip in a
> follow-up. They are there by default.
>
> The post I an replying to has 4 quotes, and will have 5 when I see this
> one posted.

You need to trim your quotes. ;-)

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s|b

[Ron K.]

Yes the file name is case sensitive and it is camel case (Chrome is
uppercase). This is a naming convention used throughout the Mozilla
projects where javascript programming is used.

[Ken Whiton]

*-* On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, at 07:04:26 -0400,
*-* In Article
<mailman.1182.1428923103....@lists.mozilla.org>,
*-* Tanstaafl wrote
*-* About Re: Replacement for Quote Colors

TB's default is to use different colored quote bars for the first
five levels of quoting. Deeper than five levels it repeats the fifth
color.

Ken Whiton
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[Ken Whiton]

*-* On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, at 20:43:29 -0400,
*-* In Article
<mailman.1157.1428885843....@lists.mozilla.org>,
*-* Roger Fink wrote

*-* About Re: Replacement for Quote Colors

[ ... ]

> The margin content is the only thing that worked for me when I
> installed the extension (I actually prefer the conventional ">>>"
> display). It's the absence of colored background and text that's the
> problem.

If you want, you can disable the colored quote bars and use the
conventional "> " quoting display instead.

<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Mail_content_types#Plain_text>

Scroll down to the "bullet" item "To disable colored quote bars,
....".

[Caver1]

On 04/14/2015 04:14 AM, Ken Whiton wrote:
> *-* On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, at 07:04:26 -0400,
> *-* In Article
> <mailman.1182.1428923103....@lists.mozilla.org>,
> *-* Tanstaafl wrote
> *-* About Re: Replacement for Quote Colors
>
>> On 4/12/2015 8:24 PM, WaltS48 <thali...@EVOMERaim.com> wrote:
>>> On 04/12/2015 08:04 PM, Caver1 wrote:
>>>> Why do you need the colored bars?
>
>>> So I can see who said what in a post, possibly know where to snip
>>> in a follow-up. They are there by default.
>
>>> The post I an replying to has 4 quotes, and will have 5 when I see
>>> this one posted.
>
>> I see them all with different colors, and I don't have 'Quote
>> Colors' Addon installed...
>
> TB's default is to use different colored quote bars for the first
> five levels of quoting. Deeper than five levels it repeats the fifth
> color.
>
> Ken Whiton
>

In what TB version did this start? I don't have colored quote bars in TB
31.6.0.
Never had without Quote colors.

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Caver1

[Roger Fink]

-------- Original Message --------
> *-* On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, at 20:43:29 -0400,
> *-* In Article
> <mailman.1157.1428885843....@lists.mozilla.org>,
> *-* Roger Fink wrote
> *-* About Re: Replacement for Quote Colors
>
> [ ... ]
>
>> The margin content is the only thing that worked for me when I
>> installed the extension (I actually prefer the conventional ">>>"
>> display). It's the absence of colored background and text that's the
>> problem.
>
> If you want, you can disable the colored quote bars and use the
> conventional "> " quoting display instead.
>
> <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Mail_content_types#Plain_text>
>
> Scroll down to the "bullet" item "To disable colored quote bars,
> ....".
>
> Ken Whiton

I am going follow up on that. Thanks for posting.

[Tanstaafl]

On 4/13/2015 11:18 AM, Big_Al <Big...@invalid.com> wrote:
> I just disabled my userContent and I do think it works by default now. I have a lot of userChrome / Content changes
> that I think have followed me from back in TB3 days. I disabled each in userChrome one by one to see if they still did
> anything and was able to weed out about 5 that did nothing now. But I like the background shading my content does so
> I'll keep mine.

This is the one single biggest reason that I really dislike customizing
things at that level - you never know when an update is going to break
things in ways that may be difficult to figure out.

Conversely, it's customizability is the main thing I like about it...

You have to take the bad with the good... :)

[Ken Whiton]

*-* On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, at 07:43:44 -0400,
*-* In Article
<mailman.1348.1429011856....@lists.mozilla.org>,
*-* Caver1 wrote

*-* About Re: Replacement for Quote Colors

> On 04/14/2015 04:14 AM, Ken Whiton wrote:

>> *-* Tanstaafl wrote

>>> On 4/12/2015 8:24 PM, WaltS48 <thali...@EVOMERaim.com> wrote:
>>>> On 04/12/2015 08:04 PM, Caver1 wrote:
>>>>> Why do you need the colored bars?

>>>> So I can see who said what in a post, possibly know where to snip
>>>> in a follow-up. They are there by default.

>>>> The post I an replying to has 4 quotes, and will have 5 when I
>>>> see this one posted.

>>> I see them all with different colors, and I don't have 'Quote
>>> Colors' Addon installed...

>> TB's default is to use different colored quote bars for the
>> first five levels of quoting. Deeper than five levels it repeats
>> the fifth color.

> In what TB version did this start? I don't have colored quote bars
> in TB 31.6.0.
> Never had without Quote colors.

The first version I ever used was TB 1.5. The newest version I
have installed here is TB 24.4.0. Within that range every version of
TB I've ever seen defaulted to colored quote bars when viewing plain
text and when viewing HTML as plain text. They've changed some of the
colors used in between those versions, but that doesn't change the
fact that in my experience TB has always defaulted to colored quote
bars.

[Caver1]

Maybe it's my profile. Even tried in safe mode and have no colored quote
bars.

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Caver1

[Ron K.]

Check this pref:
mail.quoted_graphical;true

The default is true.

[Caver1]

Thanks

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