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whismerhill
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Re: Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderb

Post by whismerhill »

axxel40 wrote:
Itsnow wrote:OK, here is what you do. First of all you should have the little program 7-zip installed. Now open the original xpi install file (charamel-2.0.1-fx+tb) with 7-zip. Edit the install.rdf file by changing 52.0a2 to 52.* for whichever program you are using Thunderbird or Firefox. Now go into the Charamel.xpi file and do the same thing and finally go into Silvermelxt.xpi and repeat the same thing. Each time you make a change 7-zip will ask you if you want to make the change and you say yes. When you are finished just install it. The problem you were having is because you are trying to rename the xpi file and you can't do that.

"open" charamel-2.0.1-fx+tb, you find install.rdf, Charamel.xpi, Silvermelxt.xpi
install.rdf must be "edit", changing 52.0a2 to 52.*
Charamel.xpi must be "open" then changing 52.0a2 to 52.* by "edit" install.rdf as the first,
Silvermelxt.xpi must be "open" then changing 52.0a2 to 52.* by "edit" install.rdf as the first and second...

"edit" directly Charamel.xpi and Silvermelxt.xpi and make change = Corrupt file.... [-X
tried this with firefox 55. says the addon is corrupt

EDIT: made it work by first unzipping charamel-2.0.1-fx+tb, then editing just install.rdf inside Charamel.xpi (with 7zip) & installing this modified Charamel.xpi separately
notes: I changed 52.0a2 to 56.*
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Re: Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderb

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Please consider open sourcing these excellent themes (in the same spirit as Thunderbird itself) if you are no longer longer able to maintain them.

I'm sure the community would be very grateful of this and could support an ongoing donation for your kind efforts in creating them and supporting them for so long.

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Re: Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderb

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Hi there,

Can someone give me the fix to make Silvermel work with 52.4.0

Love the THEME although it looks more grey than it used to :(

Thanks a ton
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Re: Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderb

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ep2012 wrote:Hi there,

Can someone give me the fix to make Silvermel work with 52.4.0

Love the THEME although it looks more grey than it used to :(

Thanks a ton
Just look two posts back and there is your answer.
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Re: Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderb

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ltsnow wrote:
ep2012 wrote:Hi there,

Can someone give me the fix to make Silvermel work with 52.4.0

Love the THEME although it looks more grey than it used to :(

Thanks a ton
Just look two posts back and there is your answer.
Thank you VERY much :)

Now do you or anyone else know where in the CSS we can tweak the colors?

The grey is very grey looking & I'd someone to tweak it a bit.

Thanks & have a great day!
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Re: Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderb

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ep2012 wrote:
ltsnow wrote:
ep2012 wrote:Hi there,

Can someone give me the fix to make Silvermel work with 52.4.0

Love the THEME although it looks more grey than it used to :(

Thanks a ton
Just look two posts back and there is your answer.
Thank you VERY much :)

Now do you or anyone else know where in the CSS we can tweak the colors?

The grey is very grey looking & I'd someone to tweak it a bit.

Thanks & have a great day!
Here is my CSS for Thunderbird. Look through the whole thing and play around with it. I haven't played with it in a long time and I don't use Silvermel anymore so you will have to see how it reacts with that theme.

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gateke ... s.only.xul");

/* Global UI font */
* { font-size: 12pt !important;
font-family: Segoe UI !important;
}
/* Folderpane & Messagepane */
treechildren {
background-color: rgb(225,234,252) !important;
}
/* No Border on Messages in Pane */
#threadTree treechildren::-moz-tree-row {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
background-image: none !important;
border-bottom: none !important;
}
#mailContext-saveAs,
#paneContext-afterMove,
#mailContext-afterWatchThread,
#multipleSaveContext,
#mailContext-sep-edit,
#mailContext-sep-copy,
#copyToClipContext,
#mailContext-print,
#mailContext-tags,
#mailContext-sep-afterMarkMenu,
#mailContext-editAsNew,
#mailContext-archive,
#mailContext-replyAll,
#mailContext-printpreview,
#mailContext-replyList {
display: none !important;
}
#mailContext-copyMenu {
display: none !important;
}
menuitem[label="Ignore Thread"] {display: none !important;}
menuitem[label="Ignore Subthread"] {display: none !important;}
menuitem[label="Watch Thread"] {display: none !important;}

@-moz-document url(chrome://menuedit/content/menueditprefs.xul){
#listarea {
border-style: solid;
background: #F2F2F2;
-moz-border-top-colors: #F2F2F2;
-moz-border-left-colors: #CDCDCD;
-moz-border-right-colors: #CDCDCD;
-moz-border-bottom-colors: #D5D5D5 #CDCDCD #ACACAC;
color: #000000;
}

tree {
border-style: none !important;
}

treechildren::-moz-tree-row {
border-bottom: none !important; /*row separators*/
}


#threadTree > treechildren::-moz-tree-row(odd) {
background-color: White !important;
}

#threadTree > treechildren::-moz-tree-row(even) {
/* #CCFFCC = gives a pale green, like greenbar paper */
background-color: #CCFFCC !important;
/* most folks will likely prefer this pale gray */
/* background-color: WhiteSmoke !important; */
}

#threadTree > treechildren::-moz-tree-row(selected) {
background-color: Highlight !important;
border: none !important;
}
#threadTree > treechildren::-moz-tree-row(current) {
border: 1px solid Black !important;
}
#threadTree > treechildren::-moz-tree-row(current, selected) {
background-color: Highlight !important;
border: 1px solid Black !important;
}

#threadTree > treechildren::-moz-tree-row(selected, hover) {
background-color: Highlight !important;
border: 1px dashed Black !important;
}
#threadTree > treechildren::-moz-tree-row(current, hover) {
border: 1px dashed Black !important;
}
#threadTree > treechildren::-moz-tree-row(current, selected, hover) {
background-color: Highlight !important;
border: 1px dashed Black !important;
}
#titlebar {
display: none;
}
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Re: Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderb

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Thunderbird beta version 60 was released June 26, and supposedly there is a way to change the strict compatibility setting in the release notes. I downloaded it but haven't installed it. Has anyone tried to get Silvermel or Charamel working in TB60?
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Re: Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderb

Post by Somebody »

I've tried Silvermel with Tunderbird 60 beta 6 and it looks broken and to be a lot of work to get it compatible again.
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Re: Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderb

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That's what I was afraid of.
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Re: Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderb

Post by Willard McBain »

Well, I guess it's the end of a long great run. I stick to the ESR channel for a number of reasons, but the most stubborn is to keep using Charamel/Silvermel. With yesterday's release of FF 60.2 ESR (from 52.9), I've come to the end of the line for these wonderful themes. It's almost 9 years since his first post in this thread. It's amazing that nothing in any browser has come close to looking as good as his themes.

I don't think ShareBird even follows this anymore, but just in case, "so long and thanks for all the fish."

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Re: Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderb

Post by kungfujoe »

Thunderbird 60 has been released, too, and while I haven't yet updated to it, I'll have to at some point soon, and Silvermel is one of a number of add-ons that I'm certain will no longer be supported once I update.

I definitely miss Silvermel in Firefox, and I'll sorely miss it in Thunderbird very soon!
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Re: Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderb

Post by krodos »

Just updated to TB60 and now Silvermel is disabled due to compatibility issues, but you can make it work but it looks a little off. Also, the Options window gets messed up and you must disable Silvermel to see it correctly again.

To run it:
Go to Help -> About -> Check the Version Number. (Mine was 60.3.1)
Go to Tools -> Options -> Advanced (Tab) -> General (Tab) -> Config Editor -> Click 'I accept the risk!' -> Right Click inside window -> New then Boolean-> Type: extensions.checkCompatibility.#.# -> Replace the #s with your first 2 Versions Numbers (Mine would be 60 & 3 -> Ok -> Select False -> Ok -> Close Windows
Then you can enable your extensions.

*Edit: Also it appears that your Message Toolbar disappears, which is a big issue.
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Re: Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderb

Post by MilchFlasche »

I'm using Waterfox 56, and Charamel is still my favorite theme. Sadly to find that some parts have been broken (video controls, a couple of system app pages like Firefox Sync, password manager etc.). I can ignore most of the glitches, but I don't know how to fix the broken video controls.
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Re: Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderb

Post by frondizi »

Hello Sharebird,
is this theme project abbandoned ? to continue to use Charamel inThunderbird i had due install the last old compatible version , 52.91 but sooner or later could be necessary to return to the last version probably for security reasons. At the moment i disabled the automatic update on Thurderbird, i'll continue to do it until it works.

Dimitri
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