1604406 - 68.3.1 update broke previous fix to highlight unread messages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Theme, defect)

Description

[David Kelly]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.79 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

After today's 68.3.1 update unread messages are again showing as a slightly highlighted font instead of the blue which was agreed on in a previous bug report as the best color in order to be able to distinguish between read and unread messages.
There is not a large enough difference here.

Actual results:

as above.

Expected results:

We need to be able to set the unread message font and color to the user preference.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

What you are seeing is intentional, from bug 1596702

Comment 2

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Right, we started at grey, got complaints, moved to blue, got complaints, and now back at grey, but apparently a better one.

If you don't like it, use userChrome.css.

Comment 3

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

Attachment: unread_read.PNG

Sorry for the bug noise.

I just tested with all three Thunderbird themes in Thunderbird 68.3.0 and 68.3.1 on Windows 10 again.
Unread messages in the Thread Pane are bold black with the Default and Light themes. Updated to 68.3.1 and they are still bold black.
Unread messages in the Thread Pane were bold blue in the thread pane with the Dark theme. Now a bold bright white.

I think the distinction between Unread and Read messages is good in Thunderbird 68.3.1 on both my Windows and Linux systems.

I also added the Status column to the Thread Pane columns a long time ago.

Comment 4

[David Kelly]

Attachment: Unread messages on my system

Unread messages on my system

Comment 5

[David Kelly]

On my system and my eyes this is not a large enough difference, I was so happy when this was fixed with the blue.
Look at my screen shot posted above, not much difference. Now I will have to add that status column back to see read and unread.
How about giving an option to change the font and colors.

Comment 6

[David Kelly]

I have 1 message set as unread in the new screenshot above, stand back and try to see the unread message.

Comment 7

[David Kelly]

Attachment: Full screen

Comment 8

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Yes, the unread message doesn't really stand out, agreed. Richard, could you prepare a userChrome.css for this user that restores the blue?

Comment 9

[David Kelly]

I would really appreciate that!

Comment 10

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

Attachment: userChrome.css

David, put this file in your profile under chrome. Tested locally and it works.

Comment 11

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Thanks, Richard. You can choose any other colour if you're familiar with HTML syntax:

:root[lwt-tree-brighttext] #threadTree > treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(untagged, unread) {
  color: #45a1ff !important;
}

For example instead of #45a1ff (some blue), chose a named colour, see: https://htmlcolorcodes.com/

As Richard said, in your profile, which you can open via "Help > Troubleshooting Information", create a folder called chrome (if not already there) and place the file into it with the name userChrome.css. Changes take effect after a restart of TB.

Comment 12

[David Kelly]

Thank You!

Comment 13

[David Kelly]

I wanted to thank you again for this, I like this better now that I can pick what color I want the unread to be.

Comment 14

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

We aim to please :-) ... although some bugs move very slowly and therefore some people claim that we don't care about the users, which is not the case.