109293 - There should be a theme like modern but that uses system colors (like classic)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, enhancement)

Description

[Jonadab the Unsightly One (Nathan Eady)]

I like the look and feel, in general, of the modern theme.  But 
it has a light background and dark foreground, which is in marked 
contrast to all the colors on my system.  I like the way the classic 
theme uses my system colors, but in other respects it is old, clunky, 
and ugly -- by design, since it is deliberately made to mimic a version 
4 browser.  What I want is the best of both worlds.  I am willing to 
work on this (so feel free to assign to me) but will need some guidance.  
(The classic and modern themes have appear to have their file/directory
structures laid out very differently, and I will need a little help
understanding the basics of how to correlate them; there may be other
places I need help as I go along.)

Goal for this RFE is to produce a theme that will be an optional 
download that looks like Modern in all respects except for color, 
and gets as many colors as possible from the system colors, 
deviating only when necessary (for example, bitmaps with shading).

Comment 1

[Jonadab the Unsightly One (Nathan Eady)]

May need backend support, e.g. the ability to specify horizontal
and vertical gradients based on system colors (but a little 
darker/lighter toward the top/bottom/middle/left/right)

Comment 2

[Jonadab the Unsightly One (Nathan Eady)]

The appearance of several themes (notably Lo-Fi) has made the need
for this less much accute.  Still, the idea is good, but it still 
needs the ability to construct gradients based on system colours.  

Comment 3

[Jonadab the Unsightly One (Nathan Eady)]

Since the ability to set gradients based on system colours may be a while in
coming, or at least require more alpha channel support than is currently
present, I've decided that for now the real issue is not so much system colour
use (which classic and Lo-Fi address) but that none of the really modernish
themes (Modern, GreyModern, Pinball, Orbit 3) are appropriate for people who
prefer to avoid 
eyestrain by using dark backgrounds.  

So, I'm working on a modernish theme using soft tertiary colours based on
a dark slate grey background (#305050) to fill this need.  For situations
where flat rectangular areas of a single shade (as in Classic and Lo-Fi)
aren't modern-looking enough but light backgrounds aren't acceptable.  

Upon completion of such a theme (and making it available), I'll mark
this as FIXED unless someone objects.  

Comment 4

[John Levon]

I don't think this should be a bug in mozilla.org bugzilla
(perhaps mozdev.org would be a better place)

Hope you get somewhere with your theme, Nathan. Re-open
if you disagree. Thanks.