Tunderbird->mail Tutorial

I'm Going to post a new tutorial for thunderbird 0.5, cause the're some differences`

In this tutorial i would like to explain how to transform thunderbird ( You can download it HERE to something more similar to mail.app

1. Download mail.app skin HERE

Open Thunderbird go to Tools->Options then click on themes and install New theme and select mail.app.jar

Apply and then restart now your thunder should look like this:

2. Download Compact menu extension for thunderbird:

You can find it HERE

To install to you must go to tools-> otpions ->Extension and then click on Install new extension.Now close and restart thunderbird

3.CLOSE THUNDERBIRD

Download my modded Compact menu from HERE

you have to paste it in

C:\Documents and Settings\Bicet\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default\(Something like this)9p1b68fw.slt\chrome\

4. Open Thunderbird and right click on the toolbar choose customize and put all the buttons like in this image (The search bar is the compact menu icon):

Note that you have to put the button where before there were the menu

5. Click on Search->view toolbar and uncheck Mail Toolbar and search Toolbar

Now your thunder should look like this:

6. Now click near the date tab collumn and uncheck therad and attachments

move the sort by junk status and sort by read on the left and here is what thunder should look:

7.CLOSE THUNDERBIRD

Download from HERE

go to c:\Program Files\Thunderbird\chrome

and open with winrar en-us-mail.jar

Navigate to locale\en-US\messenger and put inside the file just downloaded

8.CLOSE THUNDERBIRD

Download THIS file and also THIS ONE

go to c:\Program Files\Thunderbird\chrome

and open with winrar en-us-mail.jar

Navigate to locale\en-US\global and put inside the two files just downloaded

9. Download those icons from

HERE

and unpack in c:\Program Files\Thunderbird\chrome\icons\default\

NOW YOUR MAIL.App shoul look like this....

Or I Hope SO...

#107791

thanks so much this is awesome

#107855

thanx dude. hopefully ill be able to get this to work. ill let u know

edit: after playing all day i got it to work, had to play with the search bar button so it worked with shinobi's vs. thanks man very cool tutorial! (Y)

#107868

Topic Pinned.

Lets keep this for prosperity, guys

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Stevie BM

#107924

Isnt there a trick to make it say for Example "Inbox - iMail" Like it was done on Firebird to Safari???

Very good one, but I also customized my Outlook express and I managed to get Outlook express working properly :6

#107949

Originally posted by Felix@Jan 30 2004, 09:46 PM

Isnt there a trick to make it say for Example "Inbox - iMail" Like it was done on Firebird to Safari???

Very good one, but I also customized my Outlook express and I managed to get Outlook express working properly  :6

I think it's simply called Mail, without the "i".

Anyway, that's a great comprehensive tutorial there, Bicet. Thanks so much.

Good initiative, Stevie. :who's your daddy: Thanks.

#107952

The Apple program is called Mail, if you want to cahnge to imail you must edit brandt.dtd and brand.propreperties.

Tnx for the compliments, hope this tutorials can help everyone

#107957

Excellent tutorial. However, when I get to step 5, the prog looks exactly like step 4, but when I uncheck the Menu bar, the icons disappear and the empty space where the File, Edit etc use to be is still there. I tried to trace back my stpes to see if I did anything wrong, but I can't seem to find the problem.

#107960

I've got the same thing as wizard encountered. Any ideas?

But it still looks good though, just that extra bit of bar right at the top... just that empty bar, that's all.

#107996

Same problem here with the emty bar

#108000

For all having problem:

You got to move all the icons to the file menu bar then if the text of icons disapeear select view as text, view as icon and then view as icon+text.

For the empty bar you got to uncheck mail toolbar and search bar. i think it should work.

Is it working?

#108003

Yeah works perfect

Any idea how to speed up the mail popup

#108004

i don't have idea for the po up.Sorry

#108005

Hi Bicet, it works perfect now. Thanks so much. I'd help answer Wizard for you.

@Wizard: We've got the icons onto the wrong bar. Bring it to the one above where we are currently placing the icons. Such that when you uncheck the mail toolbar, the lower one disappears. Got it? :naughty:

Really nice work, Bicet. Thanks again.

#108009

No problem.

#108010

Originally posted by Bicet@Jan 31 2004, 12:18 AM

i don't have idea for the po up.Sorry

Thats ok thanks for the great skin :rule:

#108014

I think the pop up is related to windows' GDI, so you cannot make it faster.

#108022

nice skin :rule: :rock: u rock man, im using it right now , i only have one problem is that the search image doesnt apear like in your screenshot

#108028

you got to download the modified compact menu

#108032

Sorry about the Menu mix up. I got a little confused. Works like a champ now! (Y)

#108041

no problem wizard, i'm happy you was able to skin the way you like.

#108044

love the mod looks great but why cant u just release the all inone mod if it possiable ?

not flameing or bad mouth yea just woundering

#108048

^ because there's some files that go to your profile so it's not just the theme.

#108054

Originally posted by spngbb@Jan 31 2004, 01:23 AM

^ because there's some files that go to your profile so it's not just the theme.

That's right.

And I think the same question had been asked for the Firebird theming as well. It's just all the various places where the replacements need to be made, and they differ from system to system.

#108056

:who's your daddy: Awesome mod, and great work!! If anyone wants a really nice free app to be able to read Web-based e-mail with thunder bird, go to:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ackage_id=66673

Instructions fro installation can be found here: http://mrpostman.sourceforge.net/phpwiki

#108106