132506 - [UserSS]User-friendly way to make changes to userContent.css

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew Cline]

While userContnet.css is very cool, not many users know of it's existence, and
even if they did, most users probably don't want to learn CSS so they can
do cool stuff; a user friendly way of modifying it would be cool.

We could start off with a canned list of modifications that could be done;
each modification would have a checkbox and a description (in it's own
dialog, so it could easily be turned on or off.  When the dialog's "OK/Apply"
button was pressed, it would rewrite the userContent.css file, and either
force the browser to use the new CSS, or tell the user to restart the
browser.

An example of a canned modification would be forcing links to always be
underlined; there's lots of sites that have non-underline links, and there's
probably lots of people (including me) who don't like it.

Once this was in place, it should be easy to extend it to were the user could
download and install various CSS files, like can currently be done for themes.

Comment 1

[timeless]

i suspect you'll have to find some people to work on this @mozdev.org, it's 
true we need it, but I don't think anyone here will allocate the resources to 
do it.

Comment 2

[Thomas Hurst]

The ability to select alternative CSS files would be very useful.  I have a CSS
file I use for Opera, and I just point it at wherever I put it in Preferences ->
Page Style -> User CSS.  IE has a similar option (although it doesn't support
enough CSS to be very useful, natch); I expected similar in Mozilla.

Comment 3

[Madhur Bhatia]

*** Bug 169397 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** Bug 176852 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[timeless]

uid is being phased out.

Comment 6

[Jason Bassford]

Note that this functionality has now been provided by an XPI:

http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12918

Comment 7

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning obsolete bugs to their respective Seamonkey owners (i.e. nobody). 
If you want this fixed for Firefox, change the Product and Component accordingly
and reassign back to me.

Comment 8

[jonathan chetwynd]

I'm not in a position to change the product, component or reassign.
However this is important, and I filed a new bug for firefox:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314157

Blake, apologies for CC but you appear to wish to be assigned?

Comment 9

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".