This bird can dance!

Thunderbird can finally do the Tango

For a long time Thunderbird has been using the same theme for Linux and Windows, resulting in an ugly and out of place Linux theme. However now Magnus has a patch is up to create a gnomestripe theme space. Magnus already moved Thunderbird menus over to using the gtk stock icons.

Here’s a screenshot (courtesy of Michael Monreal) of Thunderbird using the desktop icon spec.

Now we can start the move over to using the Tango icon set!

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Published:: 12.04.08 / 11am

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Livio December 4, 2008

Simply, userChrome.css is your friend .
Sandy December 4, 2008

Wow, that looks *way* better! Thunderbird’s ugliness on Linux hasn’t bothered me much (consciously, at least), but this is a very welcome improvement!
Dan Mosedale December 4, 2008

W00t!
ethana2 December 4, 2008

If I install thunderbird and put in my gmail and password, is it going to work or ask me a bunch of random questions I don’t know the answers to?
Right now I just stick to the gmail web interface, but I’d like to be able to use mailto: links and stuff, so I’m kind of looking for a mail client I guess..
Sandy December 4, 2008

@ethana2: Yeah, there’s a wizard for gmail accounts, it’s pretty straight-forward. Try it out!

If you prefer the web interface, though, I recommend installing the GMail Manager Firefox extension…it lets you manage multiple gmail accounts, get notifications of new mail, and will handle mailto: links in Firefox.
louise December 4, 2008

Impressive how much a difference icons make.

This is awesome!!
Kevin Lange December 4, 2008

And only one month after I move to personal webmail and make a Tango icon set for RoundCube…
Thunderbird com icones do GNOME » Omnia sunt communia December 4, 2008

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Urbano December 4, 2008

Awesome!

Excelent work.

Great seeing TB3 getting shape!
Stephen Gentle December 5, 2008

That looks really good - I can’t wait! Ever since Firefox got a nice theme a few months ago, I’ve been wondering when this would happen.
Aaron Strontsman December 5, 2008

Very cool. Mozilla 1.9’s GTK+ integration + a good Tango theme = Seems like visually, all comes together.
Grzglo Tech Blog December 5, 2008

Thunderbird 3 dla Linuksa coraz bardziej Tango…

Mozilla Thunderbird jest niezwykle popularnym klientem poczty. Do niedawna prezentował dość słaby poziom integracji wizualnej z platformą linuksową. Na szczęście po okresie przestoju, coś się ruszyło.

Podobnie jak to miało miejsce wra[…..
chodo December 5, 2008

I hope that Scrolling won’t be slow as hell as in Tb 2, see bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356201 and related bugs
Vadim P. December 6, 2008

Thanks! This kind of visual integration is quite important to me.

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My name is Bryan Clark, I’m a User Experience Designer working with Mozilla Messaging on Thunderbird; currently living in the Vancouver, BC area. I have interests in design, economics, architecture, and beer. Previous to my work with Mozilla I was one of a select few Interaction Designers at Red Hat, working on their Desktop Team, OLPC, GNOME, Online Desktop and many other projects.

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