Calendar colours

Basil · Post by **Basil** » February 1st, 2005, 3:46 am

Hey

i recently downloaded Mozilla Calendar for Thunderbird.. i was just wondering if there was any way to change it's colours? I mean, from the light blue, I'd rather something a little darker actually... are there any themes out there which change this?

faun · Post by **faun** » February 1st, 2005, 7:15 am

you can adjust the colors via userContent.css / userChrome.css. take a look on mozilla.org, the general use of these files are described there.

Rod Whiteley · Post by **Rod Whiteley** » February 1st, 2005, 10:05 am

trashkid is right. In particular, see here for details of the files, and here for ideas about what you can change.

For example, you can add a line like this to userChrome.css to make the blue background for "today" darker:

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.month-day-box-class[today=true] {background-color:#aaf !important;}

Basil · Post by **Basil** » February 3rd, 2005, 3:47 am

Ok thanks, I'll look into that...

Has no one made any themes?

Rod Whiteley · Post by **Rod Whiteley** » February 3rd, 2005, 4:46 am

The Themes page on the project site lists some, but the pictures all seem to show the same background colours in the main view.

Lost User 53265 · Post by **Lost User 53265** » February 3rd, 2005, 7:55 am

How does one go about installing a new theme in Sunbird? Thank you for any help.

Basil · Post by **Basil** » February 3rd, 2005, 5:02 pm

COuld someone tell me where to find those css files please? I'm looking in the Moz Thunderbird direcotry, but can't find anything :S

Thanks

Never mind, just realised I got to make them myself

Basil · Post by **Basil** » February 3rd, 2005, 5:48 pm

Ok, but I do have a small problem... i can't find the folder 'Profiles' in my Thunderbird direcotry. I have Mozilla Thunderbird\default\profile but that's it...
i also don't have the userChrome-example.css or userContent-example.css files...

I do however have them in Firefox.

What's going on?

Rod Whiteley · Post by **Rod Whiteley** » February 4th, 2005, 3:41 am

Basil wrote:...my Thunderbird direcotry...

There is no single Thunderbird directory. It stores things in three places, which might be completely different places. The product code is in once place, your account data is in another place, and the product profile is in another. To change the styles, you want the product profile. On my machine userChrome.css is in the directory:

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C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default.xn6\chrome

If the file userChrome.css is not there, either rename the example file there or create it as a new plain text file.

Rod Whiteley · Post by **Rod Whiteley** » February 4th, 2005, 6:41 am

rocky111 wrote:How does one go about installing a new theme in Sunbird?

I've just installed the Skypilot theme in Sunbird. Here are the steps. The same steps probably work for other themes. I used InfoZip, but you can use any zip or jar tool.

Download the theme to a temporary directory. Extract install.rdf from it:

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unzip skypilotf08t05.jar install.rdf

Edit install.rdf and add details for Sunbird:

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<!-- Sunbird -->
<em:targetApplication>
  <Description>
    <em:id>{718e30fb-e89b-41dd-9da7-e25a45638b28}</em:id>
    <em:minVersion>0.2</em:minVersion>
    <em:maxVersion>1.0+</em:maxVersion>
  </Description>
</em:targetApplication>

Put instll.rdf back in the jar:

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zip skypilotf08t05.jar install.rdf

Make Sunbird install the theme. If this works, nothing seems to happen--there is no error message, and Sunbird's window does not open:

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sunbird -install-global-theme F:\temp\skypilotf08t05.jar

Go to Sunbird's profile directory. Mine is here, but yours will be different:

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C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Sunbird\Profiles\3wma0qhu.default

Edit the file prefs.js and add a line that selects the theme:

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user_pref("general.skins.selectedSkin", "skypilot/1.0");

Start Sunbird normally.

Lost User 53265 · Post by **Lost User 53265** » February 4th, 2005, 11:54 am

Thank you, Rod. I tried the skypilot theme and it installed just fine except it took up the upper half of my screen. At least, with your instructions, I got as far as I did. I tried some of the other themes and can't seem to find install.rdf file in them. Hopefully, as Sunbird progresses, they will have interchangable themes to make it easy for guys like me. Thank you again.

Basil · Post by **Basil** » February 4th, 2005, 10:59 pm

Would this work for Mozilla Calendar in Thunderbird?

Rod Whiteley · Post by **Rod Whiteley** » February 5th, 2005, 3:09 am

Basil wrote:Would this work for Mozilla Calendar in Thunderbird?

It's not clear what you mean. To install a theme in Thunderbird, use your browser to download the file then in Thunderbird choose Tools - Themes from the menu bar and press the "Install" button (should be "Install...") to install it.

faun · Post by **faun** » February 5th, 2005, 4:39 am

Take a look here: http://mozthemes.tk/
Some of these themes for Thunderbird support the calendar-extension, too.

Calendar colours

Calendar colours

Installing new theme

Finding userChrome.css

Re: Installing a theme in Sunbird

Installing theme