extension idea related to Personas

[blue_dragon]

i think it would be cool if there was an extension that converts Firefox Quantum themes (in addons.mozilla.org like https://addons.mozilla.org/ko/firefox/a ... raemonkuu/ ) into Pale Moon persona format

also is there a reason persona themes are saved all in lightweightThemes.usedThemes unlike complete themes? i think its harder to bundle toolbar background images etc locally or distribute custom persona themes with custom backgrounds

[therube]

FWIW... Here is an example of a FF "Persona".
(This "Persona", is a persona only when used in conjunction with Firefox Color.)

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{
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "version": "1.0",
  "name": "FUMOZILLA",
  "theme": {
    "images": {},
    "properties": {},
    "colors": {
      "toolbar": "rgb(255, 255, 0)",
      "toolbar_text": "rgb(0, 0, 0)",
      "frame": "rgb(207, 207, 251)",
      "tab_background_text": "rgb(0, 0, 0)",
      "toolbar_field": "rgb(255, 255, 255)",
      "toolbar_field_text": "rgb(0, 0, 0)",
      "tab_line": "rgb(0, 0, 0)",
      "popup": "rgb(255, 255, 0)",
      "popup_text": "rgb(0, 0, 0)",
      "tab_loading": "rgb(0, 0, 0)"
    }
  }
}

Above, gives you:
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Firefox - theme, persona.png

And here is a PM persona (split at commas):

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user_pref("lightweightThemes.usedThemes",
 "[{\"id\":\"basilisk\",
\"name\":\"Basilisk Gradient\",
\"headerURL\":\"http://addons.palemoon.org/datastore/personas/basilisk/header.png\",
\"footerURL\":\"http://addons.palemoon.org/datastore/personas/basilisk/footer.png\",
\"textcolor\":\"#0C503E\",
\"accentcolor\":\"#F8F5E4\",
\"iconURL\":\"http://addons.palemoon.org/datastore/addons/default/theme.png\",
\"previewURL\":\"http://addons.palemoon.org/datastore/personas/basilisk/preview.png\",
\"author\":\"Moonchild\",
\"description\":\"A persona in the style of the theme used on the Basilisk home page\",
\"updateURL\":\"https://addons.palemoon.org/?component=aus&persona=basilisk\"},
{\"id\":\"palemoon\",
\"name\":\"Pale Moon\",
\"headerURL\":\"http://addons.palemoon.org/datastore/personas/palemoon/header.png\",
\"footerURL\":\"http://addons.palemoon.org/datastore/personas/palemoon/footer.png\",
\"textcolor\":\"#092040\",
\"accentcolor\":\"#8bb3e3\",
\"iconURL\":\"http://addons.palemoon.org/datastore/personas/palemoon/icon.png\",
\"previewURL\":\"http://addons.palemoon.org/datastore/personas/palemoon/preview.png\",
\"author\":\"Moonchild\",
\"description\":\"A blue moon on soft light blue background gradients,
 in the style of the theme used on www.palemoon.org\",
\"updateURL\":\"https://addons.palemoon.org/?component=aus&persona=palemoon\"}]");

[therube]

Heh.
FWIW, here is SeaMonkey persona-fied with changes to 'Basilisk Gradient', changing header/footer to yellow (IrfanView), & ugly-fying text & accent colors (converting rgb to #hexvalue code, or whatever it is).
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SeaMonkey - persona.png

(I've never done such things before, except long ago creating a [the above] "theme" for FF.)

[therube]

I copied the .png image from within the doraemonku persona (<guid>.xpi), renamed it to, 'lightweighttheme-header-1600x900'.

SeaMonkey - doraemonku theme.png

[blue_dragon]

cool. for me my browser profile directory is

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F:\Profiles\Personal

so i copied the header image to

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F:\Profiles\Personal\lwthemes-local\

directory & edited the usedThemes about:config entry and set headerURL to

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file:///F:/Profiles/Personal/lwthemes-local/header.png

[therube]

So if you automate something to download the .xpi from AMO, extract the .png image, rename that to 'lightweighttheme-header-1600x900'... kind of thing...

curl https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/down ... uu-2.0.xpi --output dora.zip
unzip dora.zip *.jpg
mv *.jpg "lightweighttheme-header-1600x900"

[therube]

And here is a PM persona (split at commas):*

In addition to the code in prefs.js, SeaMonkey (I'll assume PM is the same), stores the "image", in /lwtheme/ in the Profile Folder.

"lightweighttheme-header-1600x900"*

I know nothing of this stuff, so if the above name is fixed, always, or changes based upon... I have no clue.

[blue_dragon]

And here is a PM persona (split at commas):*

In addition to the code in prefs.js, SeaMonkey (I'll assume PM is the same), stores the "image", in /lwtheme/ in the Profile Folder.

"lightweighttheme-header-1600x900"*

I know nothing of this stuff, so if the above name is fixed, always, or changes based upon... I have no clue.

its same in PM too but thats just a cache & will be cleared when switching to another theme

[therube]

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SeaMonkey - blue_dragon.png

[blue_dragon]

nice

im using https://addons.mozilla.org/ko/firefox/a ... -doraemon/ modified to use light background & make it PM compatible

[therube]

("My" FF theme:
Firefox Color, remind me how to install "my" theme?)

[blue_dragon]

i dont understand why Firefox made this idiotic extension signing thing mandatory in stable builds & make people use ESR just to use a custom theme xpi. thank god Pale Moon doesnt have the signing system

dropping XUL extension support is the world's worst & one of the most stupidly idiotic things Mozilla has ever done but they have to do some more stupid things

[Mæstro]

i dont understand why Firefox made this idiotic extension signing thing mandatory in stable builds & make people use ESR just to use a custom theme xpi. thank god Pale Moon doesnt have the signing system

It keeps up the hedges rounding the walled garden, and locks the user in. Apple offered an early example with Gatekeeper in 2011.