Additional Epyrus Themes
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Additional Epyrus Themes
I've been playing with old Thunderbird themes and seeing if I could get them to work with my Epyrus GTK-2 version. I seem to have got Walnut2 working by pasting in the Target Application section from the Epyrus ClassicTB2 theme into Walnut's install.rdf file. I think it looks quite nice. I've not tested it extensively, but I guess that there are a lot of Thuderbird themes that could be adapted in this way.
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Re: Additional Epyrus Themes
Looks good. Many old extensions and themes can be ported to Pale Moon/Basilisk/Epyrus simply by modifying their install.rdf files.geraldh wrote: ↑2024-10-07, 18:03I've been playing with old Thunderbird themes and seeing if I could get them to work with my Epyrus GTK-2 version. I seem to have got Walnut2 working by pasting in the Target Application section from the Epyrus ClassicTB2 theme into Walnut's install.rdf file. I think it looks quite nice. I've not tested it extensively, but I guess that there are a lot of Thuderbird themes that could be adapted in this way.
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Re: Additional Epyrus Themes
Adapting themes for Epyrus will require additional changes to accomodate for the new app menu, however. Otherwise, the UI will be messed up if you disable the menu bar.
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Re: Additional Epyrus Themes
Also note that the GTK-2 version of Epyrus will not be officially supported, anyone building that version is totally on their own.
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Re: Additional Epyrus Themes
I haven't been able to find an app menu? I may have disabled it, or perhaps it's only a Windows thing? I've been doing quite a bit more testing and I've not found any issues so far, but that may be due to my particular Linux Mint XFCE setup? I've now converted six old Thunderbird themes and all so far seem OK on my gtk-2 Epyrus, although I don't find some of them particularly attractive.FranklinDM wrote: ↑2024-10-09, 01:16Adapting themes for Epyrus will require additional changes to accomodate for the new app menu, however. Otherwise, the UI will be messed up if you disable the menu bar.
The ones I've got working so far are:
metal_for_thunderbird-2.0.34-tb
metal_lion_silver_sea_monkey-2.0.6.1-sm+tbr
walnut2
microthunderbird_for_thunderbird-2.0.34-tb
nautipolis_for_thunderbird-3.14-tb
nuvola_tb-1.48-tb
I've not tried them in the gtk-3 version of Epyrus so far as I don't plan to use that version.
Re: Additional Epyrus Themes
I completely understand. You have to have a life away from Epyrus . I'm just posting this in case anyone else wishes to follow the gtk-2 path .athenian200 wrote: ↑2024-10-11, 00:25Also note that the GTK-2 version of Epyrus will not be officially supported, anyone building that version is totally on their own.
It may be that some of these adapted themes also work on the default gtk-3 version. I may try them out later and report back, if it helps others who prefer a different theme to the default one.
Re: Additional Epyrus Themes
Happy to confirm that this seems to work. I wrote a script (https://pastebin.com/3QJAsgLt) which can do the conversion automatically given an XPI complete theme file and tried it with the https://addons.thunderbird.net/En-US/thunderbird/addon/ms-office-2003-jb-edition theme. I had to take an older version (3.52.4 / Thunderbird 52.0 - 53.* to be precise) because the latest version was missing some icons. Hope someone will find this useful.
Re: Additional Epyrus Themes
That's a great spot. I have it working well in my gtk-2 Epyrus and I think that's the theme I'm now going to use. I can finally switch my systems over from Interlink . I'd ideally like the Interlink theme on Epyrus, as I'm not keen on black and white symbolic toolbar buttons, but I don't know if it''s possible to extract it in some way? The Classic TB2 Epyrus theme seems to have a minor issue on both the gtk2 and gtk3 version of Epyrus on Linux with a missing line under the toolbar buttons. I've tried to fix it several times, but I'm a bit out of my depth .blu256 wrote: ↑2024-10-19, 13:08Happy to confirm that this seems to work. I wrote a script (https://pastebin.com/3QJAsgLt) which can do the conversion automatically given an XPI complete theme file and tried it with the https://addons.thunderbird.net/En-US/thunderbird/addon/ms-office-2003-jb-edition theme. I had to take an older version (3.52.4 / Thunderbird 52.0 - 53.* to be precise) because the latest version was missing some icons. Hope someone will find this useful.