Luna Blue Theme (v0.2) for Mozilla Thunderbird Update

Update: Luna Blue Theme (v0.3) for Mozilla Thunderbird is now available.

I’ve prepared an update for the Luna Blue theme for Mozilla Thunderbird. This update will work with (and only with) the latest Thunderbird 0.4 release. If you haven’t updated to 0.4 yet, it’s worth it.

Zip Icon Download/Install Luna Blue (v0.2) for Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4

lunabluethunderbird_0_2.jar – 637Kb RAR File

Here are the changes and updates to the theme:

  • Added small toolbar icons to primary toolbar and compose toolbar
  • Fixed visual glitch with double shadow on status bar
  • Added contact list icon
  • Cleaned up some old icons that were no longer used
  • Lightened disabled toolbar icons (to 80% opacity)
  • New window layout icons in the General Options window
  • Minor updates to some of the box styles and borders in the main mail window (tree view, mail pane, and preview pane) [Note: this isn’t finished and has a few rough edged – however, I wanted to get a working release out for 0.4 ASAP]
  • New throbber – dropped the Windows logo throbber, which we should probably never have used, and added a new throbber based on Garrett LeSage’s excellent BlueCurve theme from Fedora linux (which is now my primary operating system).
  • Some new IMAP, Newsgroup icons, and secure icons that were missed in the first release (a few are still missing)
  • Cleaned up group headers in address book details
  • New Copy, Cut, and Paste icons in Message Compose toolbar
  • Update for new separate attachment inditactor in inbox pane (nice new touch in 0.4)
  • Icon for new Mark toolbar button

I’m not planning on going too much farthur with this theme as I’m more interested in working on refining the default theme rather than a niche (however large) theme.

 

Best/worst CSS joke ever

 

Other Links on the side bar

A new feature on Acts of Volition: Other Links. It’s a running list of links and notes that didn’t warrant a full post, but were worth sharing. It’s basically a place for links that I previously would have sent via instant messaging to a few friends. The idea is stolen from Jason Kottke’s Remaindered Links.

There is an RSS feed for the Other Links as well.

 

Real vs. imagined customer service at an internet cafe

 

An anonymous reader bought MetaFilter founder, Matt Haughey, a $1,000 camera from his Amazon wishlist

 

Looking for a job? How about Director of Highway Safety & Information Technology?

 

Acts of Volition Radio: Session Two

Acts of Volition Radion: Session TwoThe reaction to the first session of Acts of Volition Radio was generally positive. Here, then, is Session Two:

Acts of Volition Radio: Session Two (57MB MP3)
Nine great live recordings. Recorded during a snow storm on Sunday, December 7, 2003 by Steven Garrity. Run time: 1hour.

Session One Playlist:

  1. Jellyfish – Ghost at (live)
  2. Ben Folds & John McRae – Fred Jones (Part 2) (live)
  3. Ben Folds – Brick (live)
  4. Sloan – Deeper Than Beauty (live)
  5. Pearl Jam – Yellow Ledbetter (live)
  6. Tragically Hip – Nautical Disaster (live)
  7. Radiohead – True Love Waits (live)
  8. U2 – The Fly (live)
  9. MxPx – KKK Took My Baby Away (live)

Some technical notes: I will try to get one of those foam microphone covers before the next recording to try and cut down those annoying punchy ‘p’ and ‘t’ letters. Does anyone with any recording/engineering experience having any advice? Should I be compressing or normalizing the voice tracks?

Also, there is an RSS feed for the Acts of Volition Radio posts.

Next week: an hour of name-dropping – songs by people I’ve actually met – and maybe an interview with the president of the internet.

Acts of Volition Radio
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Beautiful interactive ShockWave flight

 

Version 0.4 of the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client is out – an update to the Luna Blue theme is coming soon

 

Christmas tip: use egg nog in your coffee instead of cream