stick's corner » thunderbird http://stick.gk2.sk Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine? Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:31:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Make your emails more colorful http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2010/01/make-your-emails-more-colorful/ http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2010/01/make-your-emails-more-colorful/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:26:23 +0000 Pavol Rusnak http://stick.gk2.sk/?p=1030 I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my e-mail client and I prefer plain-text messages over HTML format. When you view a threaded conversation it looks like this:

I found a little hack on Mozilla website which adds different colors for various quote levels in messages. Unfortunately the example is no longer valid for Thunderbird 3, because the default color scheme had changed. I modified the CSS to fit the new look and ended up with this:

If you like it, just run the following code to have it applied:

cd ~/.thunderbird/*.default
mkdir chrome
cat <<EOF > chrome/userContent.css
/* Quote Levels Colors */
/* bar color: #729fcf */
blockquote[type=cite] {
    color: #394f67 !important;
    background-color: #edf3f9 !important;
}
/* bar color: #ad7fa8 */
blockquote[type=cite] blockquote {
    color: #563f54 !important;
    background-color: #f4eff4 !important;
}
/* bar color: #8ae234 */
blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote {
    color: #45711a !important;
    background-color: #f0fbe5 !important;
}
/* bar color: #fcaf3e */
blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote {
    color: #7e571f !important;
    background-color: #fef5e6 !important;
}
/* bar color: #e9b96e */
blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote blockquote {
    color: #745c37 !important;
    background-color: #fcf6ec !important;
}
EOF

Don’t forget to restart Thunderbird! :-)

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