iV - Beta 1 - My First Thunderbird Theme
Check out iV, my first Thunderbird theme.
Currently iV is in beta mode and this is the first public release. Seeing as I’ve never themed Thunderbird before, there are a lot of issues. It’s funny, I can now create a sweet Firefox theme in just a few hours, but with Thunderbird, I’m fumbling left and right.
iV beta 1 includes all toolbar buttons, basic Lighting support (it works), custom buttons, folders and all sorts of icons.
This all started when Vitae was released. It’s a very beautiful Mac theme that impressed me so I decided to create a Thunderbird theme to match. Unfortunately, it’s not nearly as good. However, it is a decent start and I’ve been using it for a few weeks with only a few oddities.
The beta warnings.
- It’s only been tested on the Mac. Let me know if others have success.
- It’s not complete, but it works.
Feel free to report bugs below and I’ll try and squash them as I find them.
Without further ado, download iV beta 1.
To install, you must first download the theme. If you are in Firefox, you may need to right click on the link above and save it to your desktop. Then open Thunderbrid and go to Tools -> Addons. Click on the Install button and choose iV-Beta1.jar. Don’t forget to activate the theme too.
excellent theme!!! any chance of a Firefox theme?
- MacDeviant June 26th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 - Mac OS X
I’m busy working on the iAqua Firefox theme. I don’t see an iV Firefox version anytime soon.
- Thomas June 26th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 - Mac OS X
I can’t wait for your iAqua Firefox theme. If it’s anything like iV-Beta 1 theme, it will be excellent.
cheers,
MacDeviant
- MacDeviant June 26th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 - Mac OS X
You can download iAqua today. See the post, at the bottom there is a download link.
- Thomas June 27th, 2007 at 6:42 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 - Mac OS X
Thomas,
Thank you for iAqua, it’s excellent!!! Wouldn’t mind learning how do themes myself.
cheers,
MacDeviant (aka - Wally)
- MacDeviant June 27th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 - Mac OS X
You have checked out my tutorials on creating Firefox themes haven’t you? I try to make it easy to make a theme.
- Thomas June 29th, 2007 at 5:28 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 - Mac OS X
I did today, and will go through the lessons one at a time. Thank you.
- MacDeviant June 29th, 2007 at 5:57 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 - Mac OS X
Thomas,
This is a Great theme for TB.
One point tho’, is it possible for the toolbar to adopt the desktop visual style colours. I use “leopard” and this only skins the top bar of the theme, the rest of which is Tiger (ish) hehe
- Gogsy June 29th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 - Windows XP
Drop a link to a screenshot Gogsy. I won’t have leopard until it comes out on store shelves.
- Thomas July 5th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 - Mac OS X
Here you go, see how the default skin , themes the whole of the tool bar and yours does just the top.
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/9079/thunderbirdye3.jpg
Thanks Gogsy
- Gogsy July 6th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 - Windows XP
I think that’s because I probably don’t have the very top bar (PC only) themed.
- Thomas July 10th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 - Mac OS X
Best Thunderbird theme out there. Use iAqua too!
Please dont give up on either one of these themes
Clean Crisp Great
Keep up the great work!
- Mike August 22nd, 2007 at 9:05 am
Internet Explorer 7.0 - Windows XP
F A N T A S T I C !!!111
- Memini September 21st, 2007 at 6:39 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.7 - Windows XP
Hi,
is it possible to do every second line another color?
Like that:
white
grey
white
grey
I mean the background, would be better!
Greetz
- DarthNihilus October 21st, 2007 at 4:57 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8 - Windows XP
If I start back up with iV I’ll keep that in mind.
- Thomas October 23rd, 2007 at 5:47 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8 - Mac OS X
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- Blogging Meta October 29th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Unknown browser
Very nice theme, works very well in Windows, too!
I like much the compact list of folders and mail headings, saving a lot of space without loss of clarity!
Keep up!
- Maurice December 19th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11 - Windows XP
great theme for T-Bird mate !!!
one of the best over the web…
keep up…
- dviixv January 29th, 2008 at 4:33 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11 - Windows XP
Hey, i’m trying to download thins thing and i couldn’t find a way how to. Can someone assist me with further detail please? Looking forward for a message from any of you guys. E mail me if you can help.
affiq_big-baby@hotmail.com
- P.J Blank April 22nd, 2008 at 9:11 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows XP
Hi Pj, just click the download link at the end of the post. Did that not work for you?
- Thomas May 2nd, 2008 at 6:49 am
Safari 525.18 - Mac OS X
For when a beta 2?
Thx
- Simon July 3rd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.15 - Windows XP
No plans for a beta 2 at this time Simon.
- Thomas July 4th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Mac OS X