Possible way to only use theme's toolbar icons? Topic is solved

[ron_1]

Is there a way to only use a theme's toolbar icons while letting the OS's theme color the toolbar/menu bar background?

[Goodydino]

The only theme with a toolbar icon that I know about is NoiaMoon, which has an options button. The theme using OS colours would be using mozField and mozDialog to set the colours. (In the case of MacOS, those backgrounds are still the light theme backgrounds - not helpful if one uses the dark OS theme.) In that case, why would you not be able to use the toolbar buttons?

[ron_1]

The only theme with a toolbar icon that I know about is NoiaMoon

You misunderstood my question. What I want is to use a theme's back/forward buttons, reload button, and home button, without using the theme's background color.

[Moonchild]

You should be able to do that by extracting the theme's toolbar image and using userChrome.css to point to that image.

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.toolbarbutton-1 {
  list-style-image: url("file:///C:/path/to/image.png") !important;
}

[ron_1]

You should be able to do that by extracting the theme's toolbar image and using userChrome.css to point to that image.

Thanks MC, but will this css work on Linux?

[ron_1]

So I'm trying it, and can't get it to work. First, is Toolbar-small.png the right file? (I use small buttons.) Next I can't figure the syntax for Linux. I tried

• "file:/home/ron/Public/Toolbar-small.png"
• "file://home/ron/Public/Toolbar-small.png"
• "file:///home/ron/Public/Toolbar-small.png"

but none of them work.

I also have other code in there (I don't know how it got there as I haven't touch the css file since making this profile). Is the following interfering?

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@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); #bookmarks-menu-button toolbarbutton { visibility:collapse !important; }
#star-button { display: none !important; }
#nav-bar-customization-target #bookmarks-menu-button .toolbarbutton-menubutton-button
#nav-bar-customization-target #bookmarks-menu-button .toolbarbutton-menubutton-dropmarker

[Moonchild]

if you use small buttons you probably need a different selector and file. I don't really have time to hunt for what exactly you need... Maybe someone else can help!

[ron_1]

Well I tried it with regular size buttons and that didn't work as well. Is there a way to strip everything but the buttons from a theme? There are so many files inside of the .xpi, I don't know what can be deleted and what has to stay.

If only the Theme Builder extension could separate the background color of the menu bar and the nav bar.

[Moonchild]

Is there a way to strip everything but the buttons from a theme? There are so many files inside of the .xpi, I don't know what can be deleted and what has to stay.

You can't do it that way. complete themes are replacements for the standard theme, they are not incremental. That's why I suggested you only take out the toolbar PNG and try overriding the standard theme with it using userChrome.

[ron_1]

You can't do it that way. complete themes are replacements for the standard theme,.

Okay. Then out of curiosity, is it possible to make simply an icon theme for Pale Moon?

[Lootyhoof]

I actually made a HowTo on this subject, a long time ago (11 years ago?! ):

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=8991

The steps should still be valid. The example themes provided on GitHub will need install.rdf updating but otherwise should be fine. This is already adjusted for Linux use where appropriate.

Alternatively, Compact Moon when paired with its Options extension includes many icon themes and you can set the sizing, so the UI is less "compact".

[ron_1]

I actually made a HowTo on this subject,

Thanks, I'll have to check this out, as well as the Compact Moon theme. Am I understanding correctly that to get the icons you mentioned for the Compact Moon theme is another download in addition the the theme itself?

[Lootyhoof]

To use additional icons within Compact Moon, you simply need to download the Compact Moon Options extension. This also allows you to configure other aspects of this theme to your liking.

[ron_1]

Thanks. I'm trying it out right now. It's very compact, even with all the height settings at +6. I'm definitely not used to it, and not sure I will. But I'll roll with it a couple of days and see what happens. Thanks again.

EDIT
Unchecking "Use small icons" in customize helps a lot!

[Goodydino]

Have you tried the Tangerinemoon theme? It has no global or mozapps directories in it. It uses the system colours.

[ron_1]

Thanks, I have used Tangerinemoon before, as well as Tangomoon, but never realized that they use the system's colors. That with Compact Moon now gives me three options. I guess that's enough to mark this thread as solved.