302851 - It should be possible to change background colour for Navigator only

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Fredrik Toftered]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728

I prefer grey backgrond colour like in Communicator. However, If I change it, it
also affects backgrond colour in Mozilla Mail, which is not desireable. Message
compose and message display should still be white.

So I want a possibility to change backgound colour for Navigator and Mozilla
Mail without affecting each other.

Fredrik

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

No comment since 2½ years.

I wonder whether a user*.css rule might do it, but how? And otherwise, what "should" an interface for changing colours be? "Changing background colour", for the average user, means "using a different theme", doesn't it?

Comment 2

[Philip Chee]

> I wonder whether a user*.css rule might do it, but how? And otherwise, what

userChrome.css with a @document rule to make it specific to navigator, but the Stylish extension would give you better fine grained control.

> "should" an interface for changing colours be? "Changing background colour",
> for the average user, means "using a different theme", doesn't it?

Yes it should be up to the theme.

I vote for WONTFIX. since this is extension/theme fodder.

Comment 3

[Manuel Reimer]

Add this to your userContent.css:

@-moz-document url(about:blank) {
  html { background-color: lightgray; }
}

I also think this bug should be WONTFIXed. We can't have an GUI item for anything! The bug reporter is able to fix his issue (which doesn't seem to be an issue for many people) with the above lines of CSS.

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

The messenger window is theoretically stylable by the theme, although neither of the default themes set page colours, so you get the appearance defaults.

The HTML compose window is set from preferences, but the plain text compose window uses the appearance defaults. I'm not actually sure that it's possible to change the colours of the plain text compose window.