1676425 - Too much blue color for new messages is very annoying in version 78.4.0

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Theme, defect)

Description

[mathias.connect]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:82.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/82.0

Steps to reproduce:

The latested update brings more blue color too the icons. The issue ist that it is way too much blue color and it is very annoying and disables the ability to quickly identify new messages in the blue color because ALL inboces are blue now. This is stupid because it makes thunderbird an very annoying experience. Whoever thought more blue would be a good idea should know one VERY IMPORTANT FACT about human beings: COLOR IS THE FIRST THING THE HUMAN BRAIN RECOGNICES before anyhthing else like shapes, size and symmetrie. Please please throw the new coloring into the trash can and first think about the user experience.

Actual results:

The icon of the inbox is now blue and the name of the inbox is blue and the inbox folder with a new message is blue. How to see new messages in blue if verything is stupid blue.

Expected results:

ONLY the inbox with new messages whould be blue. You know what? It is just as Thunderbird was before the stupid update.

Comment 1

[mathias.connect]

Only inboxes with new messages should appear in blue. Why did you make every inbox icon blue? It makes absolutely no sense to me and it is very annoying.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I believe you are being impacted by an addon you installled or a customization.
Do help > restart with addons disabled

Comment 3

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

We use the Thunderbird primary color (blue) for the server icons to highlight the primary accounts listed in the folder pane.
When there's an unread message, the specific folder is highlighted (inbox, trash, drafts, etc), gets a bolder font, and the number of unread messages is listed.

The icon change can be jarring at first, like every design update, but I suggest to use it for a few days and you'll easily get used to it.

I'd like to kindly ask you to be more respectful and polite when reporting bugs.
Our work is not "stupid" and we don't accept these type of comments in the community.