I have used Firefox previously, and have create multiple themes for Google Chrome.
I cannot believe that it is so difficult to create a theme! The web site is of nearly no use.
From what I can glean from posts here, SeaMonkey uses a different format than FireFox? Is that correct?
And you basically need to hack an existing theme to pieces to get a proper layout to build upon?
So then to build a theme, you essentially create a patch over an existing theme?
I have created numerous full themes for Google Chrome Browser, and it is MUCH simpler.
Also, what is the CHROME attribute/folder/etc in SeaMonkey/FireFox all about?? Very difficult to keep my mind straight as I go through the docs/folders/guides, since I use Google Chrome also.
Is it possible for someone to create a base theme that will stay compatible with all versions of SeaMonkey or Firefox? Where all the files are included and all I need to do is edit the graphics?
Why does the theme page here show me themes I cannot use? The page clearly has the ability to tell me something won't work on my browser, why not filter the uselessness off the page entirely?
Why is a theme in an XPI file when elsewhere states XPI are for extensions only?
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Why is a theme that doesn't include new functionality get packaged XPI?
JAR files??? WHat? None in my SeaMonkey folders. Got 4 themes. No JARs.
Why do themes from older versions not work on newer versions? They physically appear the same (aside from gfx used).
Is it possible to put the new tab button up with the navigation buttons? Or is this something that requires hard core programming knowledge, and not just a simple setting change (cuz I can't find it)
And why would the UI get modified so heavily that something as simple as a theme gets broken on every release?
I wanted to create a simple colorized theme for SeaMonkey. A theme with multiple color options, so if I want my base color black and all text elements white I could. Or purple base with green text, whatever choices one would want. In Chrome this is really easy. Edit the colors of text in a txt file, add color swath to folder. 2 more clicks, reload Chrome, it's there.
SeaMonkey appears to be MUCH MUCH MUCH more complicated.
I downloaded the ecars theme (spelling? the star trek one) for a base theme to build mine from... and let me tell ya, it makes almost no sense.
Sorry for my ranting and raving and questions.... but I've never seen such an established application change such simple aspects so often. Why does a graphical designer need to be a programmer of Java and DCOM stuff to make a theme?
And the page here that tells you how to add a graphic to the top and bottom never tells you HOW to get the browser to LOAD them. Do I have to SUBMIT something before I can even look at it on my own end? SHEESH!
From closer inspection, it appears to be so stupidly complicated because someone could make the toolbars go vertical instead of horizontal... or any other kind of complicated modification.
Well, isn't the layout of the controls stored separately from the graphical elements? Aren't all the controls hard-coded names? WHy do I have to fiddle with any of the layout when all I want are custom graphics on my buttons and a clean black border with white text?
And if someone COULD make the toolbars flow vertical instead... where's THAT theme?? eh?
Greatly need a pre-packaged tutorial theme.
Greatly need a simplified Theme creation methodology, this is ridiculous for those of us who don't program and don't hack files and crap.
Dontcha know themes are important to most people who look for their own software?
I love SeaMonkey. I don't use Firefox. Why are they so radically different when they were originally the same base? I mean, couldn't the THEMES at least be compatible?
And why are themes in XPI format if XPI is only for EXTENSIONS?
I could have sworn an EXTENSION was meant to EXTEND the FUNCTIONALITY of the browser?
I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but I'm pretty thrown by this mess... and this is coming from what USED TO BE the biggest competitor of Internet Exploder.
Such a shame to see such simple tweaking is made so infuriating.
Please enlighten me if I am mistaken. I sorely hope I somehow woke up in Bizarro-world and will be corrected soon.
