Pinstripe Thunderbird: First Look

Comments 38

1. Feb 10 Jon Hicks

   Amazing. Those icons are absolutely beautiful - I can't wait to see the finished theme!

2. Feb 10 bish

   /me lusts

3. Feb 11 markku

   Can't we have this for the win32 builds? :)

4. Feb 11 rgw

   My understanding is that Pinstripe uses nsTheme to get to some kind of special API within OSX to give a more genuine aqua look.

5. Feb 11 Greg K Nicholson

   Does anyone have a spare Mac lying around?

6. Feb 11 Robert

   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.

7. Feb 12 dangerboy

   Looks great, good job guys. Can't wait for it.

8. Feb 12 Wilbur

   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.

9. Feb 15 Castor

   Drool indeed!

   Leaves me with the big question: when?

10. Feb 16 Cody

    Very very nice, that's how thunderbird should look without a doubt, and keep up the good work :)

11. Feb 23 Minime

    Still waiting... cough cough can... wait... no... more... gimme.

12. Feb 24 Wilbur

    How much longer until this is in the nightly builds?

13. Feb 24 Kevin

    We're close .. a week, maybe two.

14. Feb 25 Van Willigen

    Hello,

    Can you help the Fire (aol, msn, yahoo etc.) team with new icons the way you did with Thunderbird???

    They need an update !

15. Feb 25 Stephen Horlander

    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.

16. Mar 7 Reinier

    I am eagerly downloading Thunderbird nightlies... but so far no luck of seeing a Horlander piece of art yet...

17. Mar 9 Alexander Ihrig

    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

18. Mar 9 Joel Nelson

    Can Pinstripe icons be created for the Outbox Extension? http://outbox.mozdev.org/

19. Mar 9 Alexander Ihrig

    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!

20. Mar 10 Reinier

    Longing for pinstriped Thunderbird... some screenshots then, to keep us quiet? Pleeeeze?

21. Mar 14 dzd

    Can we get some icons that look that good for Pinstripe/Fx?

22. Mar 15 macskeeball

    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.

23. Mar 16 Reinier

    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. ;-)

24. Mar 16 rayced

    please hurry up!!! ;) i need it!!!

25. Mar 17 Alexander Ihrig

    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???

26. Mar 17 Kevin

    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.

27. Mar 20 x

    any chances for win version?

28. Mar 21 JH

    Windows version PLEASE!!!

29. Mar 24 Reinier

    We're still waiting for the Mac OS X version. And even then… it uses Mac specific ingredients, which cannot be used freely.

30. Mar 24 Kevin

    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.

31. Mar 25 x

    "And even then… it uses Mac specific ingredients, which cannot be used freely." i don't think so :)

32. Mar 27 Wilbur

    Would you mind posting what the finished work looks like? Please? Pretty please, with nutra sweet on top? :)

33. Mar 28 Kevin

    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..

34. Mar 29 weeeeed

    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.

35. Mar 29 Robert

    This looks awesome. Can't wait.

36. Mar 29 David

    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. :)

37. Apr 1 Jan Brasna

    Yummy, that's awesome!! Been waiting for this...

38. May 4 ClosetOSXer

    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.