OT: Tailoring Thunderbird?

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N_Cook

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Or here be dragons. I've managed to find how to copy email folders for
back-up purposes and how to delete Usenet junk and purge old threads to
just the currently active part of the folder. But one more trivial
amendment remains ellusive. I much prefer my (seriously) old OE way of
handling the flagging of updated threads, by colour change. TB
(Thunderbird/15.0.1 if relevant) just underlines the heading which I
often fail to notice, anyone know where in the dragon's den a change can
be made for this?
 
"N_Cook" <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ktgfg6$lig$1@dont-email.me...
Or here be dragons. I've managed to find how to copy email folders for
back-up purposes and how to delete Usenet junk and purge old threads to
just the currently active part of the folder. But one more trivial
amendment remains ellusive. I much prefer my (seriously) old OE way of
handling the flagging of updated threads, by colour change. TB
(Thunderbird/15.0.1 if relevant) just underlines the heading which I often
fail to notice, anyone know where in the dragon's den a change can be made
for this?
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In my opinion, T-Bird does not do a very good job with usenet newsgroups. I
think that OE did a far better job of handling the threading and
presentation. So much so, that when I lost my OE after 'upgrading' to W7, I
changed my news client to Windoze Live Mail, which is what I'm using right
now. It's much more 'OE-like' and I have it set up so that any new posts to
a flagged thread, turn the header both bold and red, and if there are any
new posts, it tells me how many, again in red, at the top of the control
pane under 'Unread watched news'.

Flagged threads remain red until you unflag them. Flagging, blocking and
unflagging are simple one click operations. And it's easy to set 'rules' for
blocking posters etc, and you can make them as complex as you like.

Arfa
 
On 02/08/2013 15:31, N_Cook wrote:
Or here be dragons. I've managed to find how to copy email folders for
back-up purposes and how to delete Usenet junk and purge old threads to
just the currently active part of the folder. But one more trivial
amendment remains ellusive. I much prefer my (seriously) old OE way of
handling the flagging of updated threads, by colour change. TB
(Thunderbird/15.0.1 if relevant) just underlines the heading which I
often fail to notice, anyone know where in the dragon's den a change can
be made for this?
Click to expand...
I suggest you ask this question in the mozilla.support.thunderbird
newsgroup on the news.mozilla.org server.

--

Jeff
 
On 02/08/2013 16:12, Arfa Daily wrote:
"N_Cook" <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ktgfg6$lig$1@dont-email.me...
Or here be dragons. I've managed to find how to copy email folders for
back-up purposes and how to delete Usenet junk and purge old threads
to just the currently active part of the folder. But one more trivial
amendment remains ellusive. I much prefer my (seriously) old OE way of
handling the flagging of updated threads, by colour change. TB
(Thunderbird/15.0.1 if relevant) just underlines the heading which I
often fail to notice, anyone know where in the dragon's den a change
can be made for this?


In my opinion, T-Bird does not do a very good job with usenet
newsgroups. I think that OE did a far better job of handling the
threading and presentation. So much so, that when I lost my OE after
'upgrading' to W7, I changed my news client to Windoze Live Mail, which
is what I'm using right now. It's much more 'OE-like' and I have it set
up so that any new posts to a flagged thread, turn the header both bold
and red, and if there are any new posts, it tells me how many, again in
red, at the top of the control pane under 'Unread watched news'.

Flagged threads remain red until you unflag them. Flagging, blocking and
unflagging are simple one click operations. And it's easy to set 'rules'
for blocking posters etc, and you can make them as complex as you like.

Arfa
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I never did find a way of deleting junk or even non-current stuff on OE
which was a major disadvantage. The underlining business I can live with
and have got used to the different threading structure
 
On 02/08/2013 20:04, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 02/08/2013 15:31, N_Cook wrote:
Or here be dragons. I've managed to find how to copy email folders for
back-up purposes and how to delete Usenet junk and purge old threads to
just the currently active part of the folder. But one more trivial
amendment remains ellusive. I much prefer my (seriously) old OE way of
handling the flagging of updated threads, by colour change. TB
(Thunderbird/15.0.1 if relevant) just underlines the heading which I
often fail to notice, anyone know where in the dragon's den a change can
be made for this?

I suggest you ask this question in the mozilla.support.thunderbird
newsgroup on the news.mozilla.org server.
Click to expand...

Have done. I only found TB references on usenet for the chipset or SW or
whatever the other TB is
 
On 03/08/2013 10:24, N_Cook wrote:
On 02/08/2013 20:04, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 02/08/2013 15:31, N_Cook wrote:
Or here be dragons. I've managed to find how to copy email folders for
back-up purposes and how to delete Usenet junk and purge old threads to
just the currently active part of the folder. But one more trivial
amendment remains ellusive. I much prefer my (seriously) old OE way of
handling the flagging of updated threads, by colour change. TB
(Thunderbird/15.0.1 if relevant) just underlines the heading which I
often fail to notice, anyone know where in the dragon's den a change can
be made for this?

I suggest you ask this question in the mozilla.support.thunderbird
newsgroup on the news.mozilla.org server.



Have done. I only found TB references on usenet for the chipset or SW or
whatever the other TB is
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Yes, saw your post, but no replies as yet. :-(

Anything useful here?:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/search/?q=threads

I would guess that "Colorify Unread Watched NNTP" might be what you were
after, but it's ancient and I doubt very much that it would work with
TB15. Might be worth a trial, though.

--

Jeff
 
On 02/08/2013 15:31, N_Cook wrote:
Or here be dragons. I've managed to find how to copy email folders for
back-up purposes and how to delete Usenet junk and purge old threads to
just the currently active part of the folder. But one more trivial
amendment remains ellusive. I much prefer my (seriously) old OE way of
handling the flagging of updated threads, by colour change. TB
(Thunderbird/15.0.1 if relevant) just underlines the heading which I
often fail to notice, anyone know where in the dragon's den a change can
be made for this?
Click to expand...
Try this.

Find your thunderbird profile folder and make a backup.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird.

Create (if you don't have one) a 'chrome' subfolder.

Copy the following lines into 'chrome\userChrome.css'.


@namespace
url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

#threadTree > treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(unread) {
color: blue !important;
}
#threadTree > treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(container, closed,
hasUnread, read) {
color: blue !important;
}


Restart Thunderbird, and you should find unreads are now coloured.

--
Adrian C
 
On 03/08/2013 16:04, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 03/08/2013 10:24, N_Cook wrote:
On 02/08/2013 20:04, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 02/08/2013 15:31, N_Cook wrote:
Click to expand...

Anything useful here?:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/search/?q=threads

I would guess that "Colorify Unread Watched NNTP" might be what you were
after, but it's ancient and I doubt very much that it would work with
TB15. Might be worth a trial, though.
Click to expand...
downloaded it but incompatible
 
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