The Fox and the open bag
June 7, 2004 12:26 PM
The Firefox visual identity team has decided on changing the default theme of Firefox in preparation of the impending 1.0 release. As often in the open source community, this has caused some furor in the mozilla dev community with people taking sides with the earlier theme author who is equally furious. The fault was his own. He was hesitant in releasing his Qute theme with the same license as MPL. So the team thought of porting the hugely popular Pinstripe OSX Firefox and Thunderbird themes to Windows. They call it Winstripe. Although its only Work In Progress and is basically a mish-mash of the Qute, Pinstripe & XP Luna themes, I am liking it™.
6 comments have been added.
Add your comments.
1.
Kingsley said...
I use a theme called smoke, very understated, and about the only thing that doesn't look ugly when the tabs are on the side (I keep a lot of windows open and I need to tabs on the side to read the titles clearly).
Pinstripe is a decent theme, I use it on the Mac. But this adaptation doesn't seem to resemble the pinstripe theme so much. And yes, it's important that the theme follow my desktop color scheme.
2.
codey said...
My fav is Le Breeze Play because it inverts the base of the tabs, if they could have done the same in Gnome Stock 2 I'd have stuck to it :)
3.
Nilesh said...
Incidently my favourite Firefox themes are Breeze, LeBreeze and Gnome Stock 2.0 (Blue) ! :) I liked Smoke when these themes were not around. Another favourite is Lynchknot's SAF evolution. It goes well when I mod my Windows desktop completely to look like the Panther UI on OSX.
4.
Sachin said...
Actually am more of an Opera user!! Sure they serve ads, but thier functionality is still unbeatable. In these days with broad[cough]band being the norm, the difference is not really noticeable
5.
codey said...
How in the world do you manage to get it to look like OSX?
6.
Sachin GK said...
Codey go to themeXP .org and fiddle around. There is a theme there called Panther. You might have to change a few .dll files to get the correct look and feel. As an alternative you could also try any of the freeware/shareware programs to load the themes or visual styles.
Your Comments
* Please do not put off-topic comments. We reserve right to delete them at our discretion. You can post anonymously. If you are unable to see your posted comment immediately, it may have been queued for moderation. So do not submit it again. HTML formatting is allowed (only a, b, i, br, p, strong, em, ul, li & blockquote are allowed). Do not put paragraph tags. They are automatically inserted.
6 comments have been added. Add your comments.
1. Kingsley said...
I use a theme called smoke, very understated, and about the only thing that doesn't look ugly when the tabs are on the side (I keep a lot of windows open and I need to tabs on the side to read the titles clearly).
Pinstripe is a decent theme, I use it on the Mac. But this adaptation doesn't seem to resemble the pinstripe theme so much. And yes, it's important that the theme follow my desktop color scheme.
2. codey said...
My fav is Le Breeze Play because it inverts the base of the tabs, if they could have done the same in Gnome Stock 2 I'd have stuck to it :)
3. Nilesh said...
Incidently my favourite Firefox themes are Breeze, LeBreeze and Gnome Stock 2.0 (Blue) ! :) I liked Smoke when these themes were not around. Another favourite is Lynchknot's SAF evolution. It goes well when I mod my Windows desktop completely to look like the Panther UI on OSX.
4. Sachin said...
Actually am more of an Opera user!! Sure they serve ads, but thier functionality is still unbeatable. In these days with broad[cough]band being the norm, the difference is not really noticeable
5. codey said...
How in the world do you manage to get it to look like OSX?
6. Sachin GK said...
Codey go to themeXP .org and fiddle around. There is a theme there called Panther. You might have to change a few .dll files to get the correct look and feel. As an alternative you could also try any of the freeware/shareware programs to load the themes or visual styles.
Your Comments
* Please do not put off-topic comments. We reserve right to delete them at our discretion. You can post anonymously. If you are unable to see your posted comment immediately, it may have been queued for moderation. So do not submit it again. HTML formatting is allowed (only a, b, i, br, p, strong, em, ul, li & blockquote are allowed). Do not put paragraph tags. They are automatically inserted.