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.
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Re: Additional Epyrus Themes
I completely understand. You have to have a life away from Epyrusathenian200 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.
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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.
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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 Interlinkblu256 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.


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Re: Additional Epyrus Themes
I have now managed to extract the theme from Interlink and installed it in Epyrus gtk-2. The Interlink theme is contained within its omni.ja file when it unpacked and installed. There is still a small glitch if one hides the tab bar, as there should be a line under the toolbar as there is on Interlink, but it's not the end of the world
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Re: Additional Epyrus Themes
Please post a good dark theme if you find one. 
