302633 - Background color cannot be changed from white in the Folder and Thread panes

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Soliman.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217

Moin Moin.

In order to be able to lokk a while onto the screen, wihtot getting eye-problems
from the flickering-effect I would like, to change the background color to
something darker than white.
Using "Tools"/"Options"/"Advanced"/"Config Editor"/Filter:color"
I changed any white color to something good, without any effect.
_Tschuess,
__Michael.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. "Tools"/"Options"/"Advanced"/"Config Editor"/Filter:color"
2. Change any bright color to a darker one.
3.

Actual Results:  
No effect on the background colors (except for one little window below the
"Subjects" Window.).

Expected Results:  
Change the background colors.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Seamonkey bug 103455.

There are no preferences controlling these colors; they are specified by the 
theme.  The default ("classic" aka "qute") theme uses whatever you've defined at 
the system level for the window background color.  Other themes may do the same 
or may specify a particular color to complement the selected frame color.

The preferences shown control the color for 'browser' (the colors used for 
messages, except for HTML messages that specify their own colors, and for plain-
text mail composition) and the 'msgcompose' (HTML mail composition).  If you set 
  browser.display.use_system_colors   to true, that uses the system-defined 
color for the 'browser' color settings.

Comment 2

[Michael Soliman.]

Moin Moin.

Thank You for the hints.
I have browsed for the themes, but the only one, not using too bright
colours (named slated) cannot be instalöled.
Do You have some hints on how to chage the theme-colours of my own (i.e. is
there a theme editor.).
_Tschuess,
__Michael.
(In reply to comment #1)
> Seamonkey bug 103455.
> 
> There are no preferences controlling these colors; they are specified by the 
> theme.  The default ("classic" aka "qute") theme uses whatever you've defined at 
> the system level for the window background color.  Other themes may do the same 
> or may specify a particular color to complement the selected frame color.
> 
> The preferences shown control the color for 'browser' (the colors used for 
> messages, except for HTML messages that specify their own colors, and for plain-
> text mail composition) and the 'msgcompose' (HTML mail composition).  If you set 
>   browser.display.use_system_colors   to true, that uses the system-defined 
> color for the 'browser' color settings.

Comment 3

[Michael Soliman.]

Moin Moin.

Thank You for the hints.
I have browsed for the themes, but the only one, not using too bright
colours (named slated) cannot be instalöled.
Do You have some hints on how to chage the theme-colours of my own (i.e. is
there a theme editor.).
_Tschuess,
__Michael.
(In reply to comment #1)
> Seamonkey bug 103455.
> 
> There are no preferences controlling these colors; they are specified by the 
> theme.  The default ("classic" aka "qute") theme uses whatever you've defined at 
> the system level for the window background color.  Other themes may do the same 
> or may specify a particular color to complement the selected frame color.
> 
> The preferences shown control the color for 'browser' (the colors used for 
> messages, except for HTML messages that specify their own colors, and for plain-
> text mail composition) and the 'msgcompose' (HTML mail composition).  If you set 
>   browser.display.use_system_colors   to true, that uses the system-defined 
> color for the 'browser' color settings.

Comment 4

[Michael Soliman.]

Moin Moin.

Excuse me, please for the double-entry (my broswer/bugzilla logged me out and
created, upon logging in, a second entry.).
_Tschuess,
__Michael.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

theme issue