I’m back with the folderpane fix I showed you earlier. This time there’s even a few more “features” and all the glitches (from my point of view) have been fixed. Here’s how my folderpane looks right now:
First of all, you can see how I’ve removed the icons from the “normal” subfolders in Inboxes. Those aren’t really necessary. Also, I’ve styled the folders so that their backgrounds differ from the folderpane default background. The latest change was to make the selected folder distinctive from the other folders (see the “Personal” folder on my open@knome.fi -account).
All still fits in my monitor with two panels and Thunderbird doesn’t even need to maximised. Wonderful!
Download my userChrome.css for Thunderbird, including a fix for the broken fieldset legends in the Preferences with a dark theme.
A quick hello for my readers. We fixed some problems which appeared in Firefox and Thunderbird with our new GTK+ theme for Karmic today. After that, I wanted to see if I finally could make the Thunderbird folderpane a bit more compact so it would fit my screen – and I wouldn’t need to scroll to see the folders in the bottom. The result looks like this:
The font size of the folders are 9px, except the server/account ones, which are 11px to stand out a bit. The code you should have in your ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/yourprofile.default/chrome/userChome.css is:
#folderTree treechildren::-moz-tree-row {
height: 12px !important;
padding-top: 2px !important;
margin-bottom: -3px !important;
}
#folderTree treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol) {
font-size: 9px !important;
}
#folderTree treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(isServer-true) {
font-size: 11px !important;
}
Be warned though, this isn’t a problem-free solution. When you select any of the folders, the folder icons get cutted from the bottom. Also, as you see in the screenshot, some images (Feeds folders) are very near to overlapping each other. If I have the time to find out a better solution, I will post a follow-up. If you happen to know how to fix this quickly and cleanly, please post a comment so we can all enjoy.