How to edit Thunderbird 45.0 border color?
The update this morning has changed the border color of the program. There doesn't appear to be a setting under Options, nor is there a reference to the change in the release notes.
So, what is the config settings location, so I change the color from baby blue to what it was prior to the update?
Or, is there a fix in the wings to allow the program to use transparency and color-settings via the Windows 10 settings?
By the way, you need to fix this page - can't add any images. The uploader just spins forever (over 10 minutes for an 82kB image! Thanks, David
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Doesn't Windows 10 have a crazy thing that sets border colours according to your "accent colour"?
This isn't about Windows 10 shading and transparency. Thunderbird 45.0 has a theme, and it's been changed to baby blue.
Since Mozilla hasn't provided a link or a way to add/change the theme, I need to know what config or setting to change/edit the theme Mozilla selected.
If the program had been designed for it, the theme color could easily match whatever personalization setting I am using in Windows 10.
In Windows 7 and Linux I set these colours as OS-based GUI-wide preferences. There is nowhere in Thunderbird to set them. So I remain of the opinion that Windows 10 is at least part of your problem.
If you don't like the default theme, there are many others to choose from. I have no time for translucency myself, and invest time and effort into finding ways to defeat it. If you don't like using themes, you can learn how to set colours, fonts, sizes and other stylings via the userChrome.css settings file.
I don't use Windows 10, by choice. I have it here, but I find it ugly and largely unadjustable. They seem determined to erode user choice.
Zenos, I appreciate your insight with regard to OS-specific color changes. However, as can be seen in the current version of Thunderbird, the program does have its own theme - which is the baby blue color.
The border didn't change until the update that ran this morning, bringing it version 45.0.
Other programs on my Windows 10 system do utilize the color selections I've made in the OS. But once again, baby blue is not the color selected.
The issue is Mozilla does have their own theme for the program, but they don't provide any way to select/adjust that theme, which is all I'm looking for.
The only changes on the page you have posted relate to the left pane now being a dark background and the visual changes to the flat buttons and search. The border - top section showing 'unified folders' will be determined by whatever settings you have set up in Windows 10. It can also be determined by any additional themes you could download (although not in your case).
Look at these examples: just by me changing the options in my OS. I'm using Windows Vista, so may have slightly different options to Windows 10. Start > Control Panel > Personalization > Window Colour and Appearance.
If you make changes as I described above what happens?
As far as I can tell, Windows 10 originally defaulted to white windows and since then has included updates to offer a better means of modifying colours. It is entirely possible that an update may have effected this.
I am very familiar with the color changes in Windows 10. Again, it is not the cause for the change of the top border in Thunderbird v45.0 - Moziila is.
As to your suggestions, I actually have color changes turned off. So Win10 is not changing the border colors of programs. It wasn't the day before v45, nor the day of v45.
I do believe that Mozilla refers to this coloring of the Thunderbird top border as a skin. Since I don't wish to develop a new add on skin (theme), getting someone from Mozilla to answer this question would be great.
I've added another image of the Mozilla Thunderbird Theme tab, showing the date the theme was changed...by Mozilla - not Windows.
Ok, the default theme for Thunderbird on all version of windows prior to 10 is a blue border, as you would be seeing from the images toad-hall posted.
Was there a change in the windows 10 theme, I don't think so. The closest thing I could find was https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1222805
As there is no simple user interface to change individual components, I suggest you look at a non default theme as suggested earlier.
BTW as Thunderbird is a volunteer open source community with no paid employees, I think you might want to wish for a reply from Mozilla a lot harder. They host the program, not develop it.