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#1 User is offline   INpac Icon

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Posted 06 February 2006 - 05:32 PM

Hi guys.

I wanted to give a summary for those who are new in the osx emulation sector.

This is a screen of my current thunderbird:
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This what I'm using:

- Tiger Mail 2.0 Theme by toyo-snow

- Move Search Items Extension to move the search bar into the toolbar

- TitleBar Extension to set the window's name to "Apple Mail"

- AccountBar Extension by INpac, me ;). This ext adds a small bar under the sidebar like Apple Mail 2: two buttons, one to create a new account and one to edit the options of the current opened account. Please read the readMe for the right installation.

- I'm also using a modded start.xhtml that is shown up when tb starts. You can find this file, the files that describe the name of Thunderbird (changed to "Apple Mail" in my case), the credits image and so on in messenger.jar in your "mozilla thunderbirdchrome" dir

- To set a background image for the splitter that devides the mail and the mail list, use userCrhome.css and add these lines:

/* Use a image for the splitter */
#threadpane-splitter {
  background-image: url("splitter.bmp") !important;
  background-color: none !important;
}


Download the splitter graphic here: http://www.inpacshp....sh/splitter.bmp


Here is what you gotta do (ReadMe.txt)

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- Install the Extension AccountBar (eg. via Drag'n'Drop into the extension window
in tools>extensions)

- After that open userChrome.css and add the following lines


#AppleMailBar {
background-image: url("threebuttonsbg.bmp") !important;
background-color: none !important;
height: 23px;
}



Be sure that you have pasted the "threebuttonsbg.bmp" into the same directory like userCrhome.css
( C:Documents and Settings[Username]Application Data[Mozilla ]ThunderbirdProfilesdefault[---]chromeuserChome.css if there's no userChrome.css, create one... )

- In order to resize the search field after installing the 'Move Search Items' ext., put those lines into userChrome.css:


#search-container, #searchbar { -moz-box-flex: 200 !important; }

#searchBox {
width: 250px !important;
}

For any comments or suggestions, contact me: inpac@arcor.de, www.inpacshp.de


Hope there's a use of this here :)

thanks for the modders that make osx emulation so nice and easy


INpac
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#2 User is offline   nappystudios Icon

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Posted 06 February 2006 - 05:38 PM

now thats what I call big pimping.. this is retarded!

excellent, excellent work!
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#3 User is offline   Zaft Icon

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Posted 06 February 2006 - 05:44 PM

Thanks for sharing your tips and advice :)
I'm sure a lot of people would like this.
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#4 User is offline   jbgamble Icon

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Posted 06 February 2006 - 08:30 PM

Something I was missing were the "text zoom buttons"
So, I modded Stephen Clavering's "Zoomy" extension.

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See my release post to download.
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#5 User is offline   INpac Icon

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Posted 06 February 2006 - 08:49 PM

kewl thx a lot.
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#6 User is offline   changer Icon

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Posted 06 February 2006 - 08:58 PM

You didn't list the compact menu installation though. I don't know how the compact menu installation listed on the Tiger mail 2.0 thread would work with this though because that also uses the search box to access the menus. Can you acces the program menus on your mod? Also, the search extension isn't compatible with TB 1.5 or can it work by modifying the install manifest?
Thanks
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#7 User is offline   aquaman99 Icon

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Posted 06 February 2006 - 10:27 PM

Thanks for this info, I didn't know that you could modify start.xhtml.
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#8 User is offline   shockme17 Icon

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Posted 06 February 2006 - 10:35 PM

also how did you remove the sorting options when adding the searchbar to the toolbar?
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#9 User is offline   j2227 Icon

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Posted 06 February 2006 - 11:13 PM

for the search extension, change the maxversion in the install.rdf to 1.5, in simple terms.

In detailed terms, rename the file so it has a .zip extension, open it with winrar, extract the install.rdf, open it in wordpad, change line 28 to

<em:maxVersion>1.5</em:maxVersion>


save it, rename it back to rdf and drag and drop back into the orignal zip. Finally rename to xpi.

There you go ;)

P.S. There's more to be done to remove the view and resize the searchbar, but i'll leave that up to INpac, since i'm lazy.

P.P.S. For all you DOM and CSS pros, anyone know how to change the Write label to New?
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#10 User is offline   SheepShaver Icon

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Posted 07 February 2006 - 11:43 AM

I already tried to bump up the maxVersion inside the xpi but the extension doesn't seem to work with TB 1.5. As soon as I drag the SearchBox thing into the button area, the search field doesn't show up at all or it disappears after restart.
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#11 User is offline   INpac Icon

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Posted 07 February 2006 - 01:02 PM

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also how did you remove the sorting options when adding the searchbar to the toolbar?


Well, you can access the preferences of the move search items extension by goging to the extension window and doble blick the list entry, there you can choose to hide the sorting options combo box :)

compact menu is in tiger mail 2.0 included, I think so, if it isn't try seraching google ;)

I modded the compact menu image in tiger mail so that you can't see it :) it's much nicer than two search bars next to each other ;)
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#12 User is offline   mikil Icon

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Posted 07 February 2006 - 01:31 PM

shockme17 said:

also how did you remove the sorting options when adding the searchbar to the toolbar?


I have the same problem...

I can't get my searchbar wider than default and the sorting-list won't go away
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#13 User is offline   SheepShaver Icon

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Posted 07 February 2006 - 01:35 PM

mikil said:

I have the same problem...

I can't get my searchbar wider than default and the sorting-list won't go away

But does the Move Search Items extension actually work for you? Do you use Thunderbird 1.5? I now don't have ANY search bar lol. It is completely gone no matter what I do. :-/
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#14 User is offline   mikil Icon

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Posted 07 February 2006 - 01:38 PM

SheepShaver said:

But does the Move Search Items extension actually work for you? Do you use Thunderbird 1.5? I now don't have ANY search bar lol. It is completely gone no matter what I do. :-/


well, you have to drag and drop the "searchbox" from the customize-window onto the toolbar

I can't use the searchbar because it's too small :)
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#15 User is offline   patstome Icon

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Posted 07 February 2006 - 01:39 PM

this looks very good. thanks a lot for your advice. now i try some ext you had descriped here
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#16 User is offline   SheepShaver Icon

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Posted 07 February 2006 - 01:54 PM

mikil said:

well, you have to drag and drop the "searchbox" from the customize-window onto the toolbar

I can't use the searchbar because it's too small :)

*cough* I already did that and it disappeared. No searchbox thingie in customize window and no search bar in tool bar. Sometimes the searchbar thingie reappears inside the tool bar there the search bar should be, but that's all lol. I suspect that there are some incompatibilities between the extension and TB 1.5 because the same problem is state in the comments at mozilla.org.

//edit
ok, I just discovered that the searchbar reappears as soon as I select a mail in my inbox.
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#17 User is offline   patstome Icon

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Posted 07 February 2006 - 02:16 PM

j2227 said:

for the search extension, change the maxversion in the install.rdf to 1.5, in simple terms.

In detailed terms, rename the file so it has a .zip extension, open it with winrar, extract the install.rdf, open it in wordpad, change line 28 to

<em:maxVersion>1.5</em:maxVersion>

save it, rename it back to rdf and drag and drop back into the orignal zip. Finally rename to xpi.

There you go ;)

P.S. There's more to be done to remove the view and resize the searchbar, but i'll leave that up to INpac, since i'm lazy.

P.P.S. For all you DOM and CSS pros, anyone know how to change the Write label to New?


hi j2227.
maybe you want to share the modified extension. i would appreciate your generosity :)
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#18 User is offline   SheepShaver Icon

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Posted 07 February 2006 - 02:20 PM

Here you go... should install in Thunderbird 1.5

Rename from .zip to .xpi first!

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#19 User is offline   acastro23 Icon

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Posted 07 February 2006 - 03:09 PM

Any way to get rid of the "View" menu in the search toolbar?

Thanx

Edit: Never mind, I figured it out.

Can anyone tell me how to change the window name to Apple Mail. I already installed the extension but I don't know what else to do.

Thanks again
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#20 User is offline   INpac Icon

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Posted 07 February 2006 - 03:17 PM

omg go to the properties of the move search items extension and enable Hide:
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