December 4

This bird can dance!

Posted by Bryan Clark
Filed under mozilla | 20 Comments

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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20 Responses to “This bird can dance!”

  1. Livio on December 4th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    Simply, userChrome.css is your friend ;) .

  2. Sandy on December 4th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    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!

  3. Dan Mosedale on December 4th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    W00t!

  4. ethana2 on December 4th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    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..

  5. Sandy on December 4th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    @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.

  6. louise on December 4th, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    Impressive how much a difference icons make.

    This is awesome!!

  7. Kevin Lange on December 4th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    And only one month after I move to personal webmail and make a Tango icon set for RoundCube…

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  9. Urbano on December 4th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    Awesome!

    Excelent work.

    Great seeing TB3 getting shape!

  10. Stephen Gentle on December 5th, 2008 at 2:45 am

    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.

  11. Aaron Strontsman on December 5th, 2008 at 6:42 am

    Very cool. Mozilla 1.9′s GTK+ integration + a good Tango theme = Seems like visually, all comes together.

  12. Grzglo Tech Blog on December 5th, 2008 at 7:42 am

    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.

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  13. chodo on December 5th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    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

  14. Vadim P. on December 6th, 2008 at 9:15 am

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

  15. gazeteler on October 22nd, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    thankss yourss verf good

  16. promosyon on October 28th, 2009 at 2:50 am

    Impressive how much a difference icons make.

    This is awesome!!

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  18. blog on January 1st, 2010 at 4:33 pm

    Thank you. i will share this article on my blog.

  19. Desen on January 21st, 2010 at 3:23 am

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

  20. oversizedchairs on August 2nd, 2010 at 1:37 am

    I was always Thunderbird’s fan. I’m almost migrated to Thunderbird from outlook after the slow operation of outlook on my machnie.

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