255229 - New, standard (Firefox-like) default theme for Thunderbird (Winstripe)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[orban]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Firefox/0.9.1+ (MOOX M2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Firefox/0.9.1+ (MOOX M2)

Is there any chance that we will see a a new thunderbird theme from "Gerich and
Horlander" matching the new firebird theme?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Thunderbird
Actual Results:  
Old theme matching Qute, IMHO

Expected Results:  
New theme matching Firefox 0.9+

Comment 1

[orban]

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=115922

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 259295 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

Thunderstripe ( https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/moreinfo.php?application=thunderbird&id=633 ) could form the basis of a default Winstripe theme for Thunderbird in 2.0.

It's more complete and more Firefox-like now than other Winstripe clones, and feels more polished than Thunderbird's current (1.5) default theme.

If it was checked in now and thus subject to ~6 months of tinkering by Gerich, Horlander et al., it'd easily be ready for use and as polished as Firefox by 2.0.

A theme matching Firefox would be smashing to have for 2.0 along with all the other planned user-facing improvements, wouldn't require any effort and would generate lots of kudos for Thunderbird.

And the work's already been done - by someone else; so you don't have to bother. (This is termed a "win-win" or "lazy-win(w00t!)" situation.)

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 334380 ***

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

this isn't a dupe of 259686.

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

I meant to say, this isn't a dupe of Bug 334380.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

not advocating one way or the other - just putting the theme idea on the table

Comment 8

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Hm, tell me Wayne, there are two things I don't fully understand about this bug:
1) aren't the Firefox (default) and Thunderbird (default) themes pretty similar already? -- as well as SeaMonkey (default) for that matter --
2) This bug is labeled as PC/XP. Is that an oversight (for All/All) or is it really a Windows-only bug?

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Hm, tell me Wayne, there are two things I don't fully understand about this
> bug:
> 1) aren't the Firefox (default) and Thunderbird (default) themes pretty similar
> already? -- as well as SeaMonkey (default) for that matter 

dunno, someone would need to compare

> 2) This bug is labeled as PC/XP. Is that an oversight (for All/All) or is it
> really a Windows-only bug?

enh are generally assumed to be os=all

Comment 10

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

TB UI gurus, there's something being done along the lines of this for TB3?

Comment 11

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

I'm not sure what this bug is asking for as it seems a bit out of date.

We have a winstripe XP theme with updated icons for TB3, see:
bug 488061 - winxp theme (winstripe)

We also have a winstripe Vista theme with new icons being created specifically for the aero theme requirements, see:
bug 488060 - vista theme (winstripe osversion>=6)

I don't know if this is a dupe of one of those or invalid.

Comment 12

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

There was a time when "Winstripe" actually meant something, and this bug dates back to then. Both Fx and Tb had Qute default themes with Arvid's icons, then something something something, and Firefox got a new theme for 1.0 called Winstripe, a name that riffed off Pinstripe the Mac theme (which at one point actually had stripes and the name actually made sense).

The only non-confusing way I can come up with to interpret this bug, five years later, is as "get Kevin Gerich and Stephen Horlander to do new icons for the Thunderbird Windows theme that will look like some Firefox theme" which isn't the direction we're going at the moment, and if we decide to either get them to do a Windows theme, or to get whoever happens to have done the last Firefox theme to do the next Thunderbird theme, the odds that we'll find a six or seven or ten year old bug and do it there are not great.

(Some other possible but not useful interpretations that also occurred to me: "Make Thunderbird look like Firefox 1.0," "Make Thunderbird look like the most recent Firefox release/the next Firefox release/the Firefox release before that one where they made it look ugly/the one I started using Firefox with, which is when it looked right, by definition," "get a Gerich/Horlander theme, irrespective of what other thing it looks like.")