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Question: color for folders and account #373

Closed topoldo closed 11 hours ago

topoldo commented 11 hours ago

Hi all! Herein I report a question not a bug about BB/TB. BB at first (and now also TB) have the possibility to set a color for each account. The main reason I would like to take advantage from this opportunity is to be sure to send an email from the appropriate account. So until today I used the addon BorderColorsD. Now I tried to use this new setting also in BB, so I went to AccountSettings -> Color and I got what it is reported in the image below, ie: a) all the folders of an account were colored b) the field "From:" of the composition message has the background color which is the same of the account which was used for the composition.

Actual

Now the question(s):

  1. Is it possible to have a situation like it is reported in the image below with regard to Microsof account? I did not find any way to get it or something like it!
  2. What is the effect to set to true the preference mail.threadpane.full_row_color? I tried to set it but I didn't see any change (maybe because my accounts/folders/view were set in such a way that they could not show any difference.

Wanted

TIA for any clue on this subject

Best regards, Leopodo aka Topoldo

Betterbird commented 11 hours ago

Herein I report a question not a bug about BB/TB.

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BB at first (and now also TB) have the possibility to set a color for each account.

TB's implementation is total shambles. It gives you the coloured dot when composing and it gives you a coloured account icon in the folder tree. No colouring of the folder tree, no colouring of the thread tree/message list, the bug where they wanted to implement this has been forgotten: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882368

For the questions:

You want a coloured header, maybe that's doable with userChrome.css. The BB implementation colours the entire part of the tree belonging to the account.

mail.threadpane.full_row_color does this: image but of course only in virtual folders based on multiple accounts.