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[Stinkoman S]

Postbox hurts my eyes.  Has anyone figured out a way to change / theme the appearance on windows?

[Dan Pritts]

On Jul 12, 2013, at 11:50 PM, Stinkoman S <stin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Postbox hurts my eyes.  Has anyone figured out a way to change / theme the appearance on windows?

I played with this (on MacOS) a bit lately.

I was unable to accomplish anything useful.

For some reason, I was under the impression that changing the default text color and background color in composition mode would only affect the local display.  Looking at the dialog I'm not sure why I thought that; but it definitely affects the sent mail.

I looked for info on thunderbird colors.  I found a reference to changing this setting in userprefs.js:

user_pref("browser.display.background_color", "#073642");

user_pref("browser.display.text_color", "#657b83");

This doesn't do anything useful in postbox.  It does colorize the empty pane if you have no message displayed though.  :)

I found this:  

https://github.com/JimSangwine/PostBox-Config

which changes the colors in the message index pane based on message status.  I guess if you were a CSS stud and really started poking you could figure out how to do more.  If you do please share, and I will buy you a pizza.  :)

danno

[Stinkoman S]

Looks kinda neat. Didn't work on 3.0.8 on PC though =(

[Thunderbox]

Along similar lines to Dan Pritts' approach, I inspected the configuration settings for the appropriate parameters to modify the contrastless combination of the mid-grey day/date text against a subdued blue background in Vertical View that is imposed on the currently-selected message in the list of messages ( View > Layout > Vertical view ). Specifically, I searched for the tags denoting colours: Tools > Options > Advanced > Config. Editor > [Accept warning] > Filter [Search for 'color' or '#' (because the hash mark precedes the code for the colour)]

To my surprise, I drew a complete blank. Not one of the colour definitions corresponded either to the grey or to the particular shade of blue in question. I conclude that there must be some additional style sheet somewhere that defines these colours, but why, or where it is located, I cannot fathom. Maybe those particular colours are defined by the operating system (XP, in my case), rather than by Postbox.

However, I did discover that if you select the so-called 'Classic View' instead of Vertical View, the day/date text appears as white against the same blue background, instead of grey.