Check out iV, my first Thunderbird theme.
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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?
I’m busy working on the iAqua Firefox theme. I don’t see an iV Firefox version anytime soon.
I can’t wait for your iAqua Firefox theme. If it’s anything like iV-Beta 1 theme, it will be excellent.
cheers,
MacDeviant
You can download iAqua today. See the post, at the bottom there is a download link.
Thomas,
Thank you for iAqua, it’s excellent!!! Wouldn’t mind learning how do themes myself.
cheers,
MacDeviant (aka – Wally)
You have checked out my tutorials on creating Firefox themes haven’t you? I try to make it easy to make a theme. 🙂
I did today, and will go through the lessons one at a time. Thank you.
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
Drop a link to a screenshot Gogsy. I won’t have leopard until it comes out on store shelves. 🙂
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
I think that’s because I probably don’t have the very top bar (PC only) themed.
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!
F A N T A S T I C !!!111
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
If I start back up with iV I’ll keep that in mind.
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!
great theme for T-Bird mate !!!
one of the best over the web…
keep up…
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.
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Hi Pj, just click the download link at the end of the post. Did that not work for you?
For when a beta 2?
Thx
No plans for a beta 2 at this time Simon.
Thnaks for this nice theme. Any crystal themes resources?