Pinstripe Thunderbird: First Look
The Pinstripe Theme is coming soon to Thunderbird (Mac only of course)! Stephen Horlander has created some amazing icons. You’re gonna love it 🙂 Watch this blog for details.
Comments
Jon Hicks on 2004-02-10 18:18:04
Amazing. Those icons are absolutely beautiful - I can't wait to see the finished theme!
bish on 2004-02-10 19:37:01
/me lusts
markku on 2004-02-11 02:38:27
Can't we have this for the win32 builds? :)
rgw on 2004-02-11 16:57:05
My understanding is that Pinstripe uses nsTheme to get to some kind of special API within OSX to give a more genuine aqua look.
Greg K Nicholson on 2004-02-11 17:29:51
Does anyone have a spare Mac lying around?
Robert on 2004-02-11 20:01:26
I am so happy about this theme. I'm using Thunderbird on my XP machine but it just doesn't look OSX enough to use on my iBook. This theme is great because I'm getting tired of the how oversimplified Mail is.
dangerboy on 2004-02-12 13:50:38
Looks great, good job guys. Can't wait for it.
Wilbur on 2004-02-12 23:52:23
Wow, this theme makes the default TB theme look sick. The cartoony look is one thing that has kept me from using TB full time. But this pinstripe theme looks very clean and professional. I love it! drools on keyboard
Love your Firefox theme too.
Castor on 2004-02-15 18:53:18
Drool indeed!
Leaves me with the big question: when?
Cody on 2004-02-16 01:36:17
Very very nice, that's how thunderbird should look without a doubt, and keep up the good work :)
Minime on 2004-02-23 06:27:20
Still waiting... cough cough can... wait... no... more... gimme.
Wilbur on 2004-02-24 23:07:18
How much longer until this is in the nightly builds?
Kevin on 2004-02-24 23:53:15
We're close .. a week, maybe two.
Van Willigen on 2004-02-25 18:10:17
Hello,
Can you help the Fire (aol, msn, yahoo etc.) team with new icons the way you did with Thunderbird???
They need an update !
Stephen Horlander on 2004-02-25 21:28:27
I actually started an icon makeover for Fire a while ago, but then I learned that they were making significant changes for the 1.0 release. Which will include a "theme" component. When 1.0 goes final I will probably finish it up and package it in a Fire theme file.
Reinier on 2004-03-07 14:27:27
I am eagerly downloading Thunderbird nightlies... but so far no luck of seeing a Horlander piece of art yet...
Alexander Ihrig on 2004-03-09 10:12:21
Hi Kevin & Stephen!
Thunderbird itself has no toolbar-button "Get & Send" (like OE). So I've been creating an extension:
MagicSLR
This Extension uses 4 modified qute-theme related icons. My (and the users) wish is, to have pinstripe related icons, when Thunderbird 0.6 will be released.
Would it be possible to get a preview of your thunderbird icons by mail-attachment? So I would be able to create the 4 MagicSLR icons. Or would it be possible to get 4 finished icons?
You should have a look at MagicSLR:
http://thunderbird.diepause.de/downloads/magicslr/index-en.php
MagicSLR is (I can only speak for our german users) the most used Thunderbird extension besides the offline extension!
Regards Alexander Ihrig Mozilla Thunderbird DE
Joel Nelson on 2004-03-09 15:05:23
Can Pinstripe icons be created for the Outbox Extension? http://outbox.mozdev.org/
Alexander Ihrig on 2004-03-09 18:06:44
Outbox and MagicSLR could use the same Pinstripe Icons. Outbox has only the two buttons "Send later" and "Send all" (or is "Send now"?).
BTW: The Pinstripe Icons for MagicSLR are only intended for the Mac OS X version!
Reinier on 2004-03-10 20:35:42
Longing for pinstriped Thunderbird... some screenshots then, to keep us quiet? Pleeeeze?
dzd on 2004-03-14 23:45:47
Can we get some icons that look that good for Pinstripe/Fx?
macskeeball on 2004-03-15 14:41:07
Stunningly beautiful work as usual. When the Thunderbird version comes out I might end up switching from Mail like I switched from Safari to Firefox. Like it is now, Thunderbird is just far too ugly for my tastes.
PS- If you still want to use Thunderbird even before the Pinstripe theme is made available, I suggest using the Smoke theme as it's the most Mac-like Thunderbird theme availabe right now.
Reinier on 2004-03-16 14:02:39
I couldn't agree more macskee', except I cannot bare to use Tb with the Smoke theme, knowing that this is coming along. And cannot say that Stephen's smilies help very much. ;-)
rayced on 2004-03-16 18:41:38
please hurry up!!! ;) i need it!!!
Alexander Ihrig on 2004-03-17 07:02:30
Why, oh why, there is no response on my question? We / I've to accept it, if Kevin is not interested in supporting extension developers. But why there is NO answer???
Kevin on 2004-03-17 07:26:20
Alexander, I'm sorry that I haven't gotten back to you sooner, but we have limited free time and I have to focus right now on completing the theme and landing it in Thunderbird.
An idea I have for the future to support extension authors is to provide a sort of "Pinstripe icon kit" which would contain detailed descriptions of how to achieve the Pinstripe style along with some Photoshop examples.
Please email me after Pinstripe has landed in Thunderbird and then I will consider your request for icons. Thanks.
x on 2004-03-20 17:51:28
any chances for win version?
JH on 2004-03-21 01:40:21
Windows version PLEASE!!!
Reinier on 2004-03-24 15:49:05
We're still waiting for the Mac OS X version. And even then… it uses Mac specific ingredients, which cannot be used freely.
Kevin on 2004-03-24 18:31:39
Here's a small update: Pinstripe Thunderbird is "done" but waiting on a code review before it can be checked in to the Mozilla source tree.
Also, Pinstripe is open source. The CSS code and images will be available when we release. You can use the code and images in any way you like provided it is in the bounds of the Mozilla MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license.
x on 2004-03-25 06:29:44
"And even then… it uses Mac specific ingredients, which cannot be used freely." i don't think so :)
Wilbur on 2004-03-27 22:42:37
Would you mind posting what the finished work looks like? Please? Pretty please, with nutra sweet on top? :)
Kevin on 2004-03-28 22:16:20
I will post some shots when it lands, hopefully this week :) You can also see a screenshot in the recent Developer Day presentation of Thunderbird..
weeeeed on 2004-03-29 02:03:12
Beyond my expectations! Awsome. This is the best looking skin ever made for the moz project. Can't wait, already checking out nightly builds every day... Direct Linky to the screenshot.
Robert on 2004-03-29 12:39:32
This looks awesome. Can't wait.
David on 2004-03-29 21:44:29
Agreed. I just switched to Thunderbird but will feel more comfortable with it once this theme is out to make it look more Mac-like. :)
Jan Brasna on 2004-04-01 10:43:32
Yummy, that's awesome!! Been waiting for this...
ClosetOSXer on 2004-05-04 01:20:08
So when do we get this for XP? Share the love!
Seriously, something this nice should be the default for the apps in general. Not a big fan of the current Windows default themes. Using LeBreeze for Firefox and Thunderbird currently.
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