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| Thunderbird 5.0 27/07/2011 at 18:49 #18465 | |
GeoffM
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Just semi-unconsciously downloaded the latest Thunderbird and - what happened?! Apparently dark grey text on a black background for the menu bar and buttons is a "good idea"  Is there an option I'm missing to make it at least semi-legible to those of us without night vision? There's no "skin" option in the Preferences that I can see (not that that's saying much really, when I can barely read the menu bar anymore). It's the only program; other software is fine.
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| Re: Thunderbird 5.0 27/07/2011 at 18:57 #18466 | |
zerofire
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Geoff you must have been having too much fun with your themes. Go to: Tools Add-ons Appearance Enable Default 5.0 and you will be back to default. Log in to reply |
| Re: Thunderbird 5.0 27/07/2011 at 20:08 #18475 | |
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broodje
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Then you have a different thunderbird as I have zerofire, I also have a black background with grey buttons. It is even worse when thunderbird isn't running the selected application, then everything is the same shade of grey. It has been a long time since I've seen such a bad GUI. Geoff, try to find the 'classic reloaded' skin on the themes section of the add-on section. Then you get the old 1.5 theme again which is a lot more usable. Last edited: 28/07/2011 at 06:16 by broodje Log in to reply |
| Re: Thunderbird 5.0 27/07/2011 at 22:01 #18494 | |
postal
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Strange. I ran FF5 from the first of the betas and am now running beta6. I have never had anything but a light grey background and black text.
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| Re: Thunderbird 5.0 28/07/2011 at 06:15 #18506 | |
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broodje
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I run it in Win7, could that be the difference?
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| Re: Thunderbird 5.0 28/07/2011 at 10:31 #18514 | |
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GeoffM
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I'm on Vista and haven't knowingly fiddled with skins in Thunderbird (in fact, the previous version was quite bland so I'm pretty sure I didn't). I'll give the suggestion a go tonight. Thanks. SimSig Boss Log in to reply |
| Re: Thunderbird 5.0 28/07/2011 at 19:10 #18547 | |
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GeoffM
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It turns out "default 5.0" is the only theme I have, so it's enabled anyway. Oddly looks clearer on here than as a "true" window. Post has attachments. Log in to view them. SimSig Boss Last edited: 28/07/2011 at 19:11 by GeoffM Log in to reply |
| Re: Thunderbird 5.0 28/07/2011 at 19:35 #18560 | |
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GeoffM
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Right, I've found a theme ("only preliminarily tested" which pretty much puts it back the way it was before the upgrade.
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| Re: Thunderbird 5.0 28/07/2011 at 19:38 #18563 | |
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broodje
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Hehe, I was just typing a reply about where you can find the downloadable themes. Bit strange though that you have to download a new theme to make a program usable.
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| Re: Thunderbird 5.0 28/07/2011 at 20:26 #18572 | |
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zerofire
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Maybe it is a NT6.x thing.
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