Leopard\Mail.app Skin for Thunderbird

If you’re a Thunderbird user who likes the extensibility but doesn’t like the application’s looks then this is your tip. Here’s a skin that masks the ugliness of Thunderbird to a near match of Mail.app, albeit a little bit of a difficult installation:

Contents of Leopard Mail_package.zip

• Leopard_Mail_byREO-2007.jar

Extension

• AccountBar.jar
• compact_menu_2-2.0.3-fx+tb_Clear.xpi (~mod by me) by compact_menu_2-2.0.3-fx+tb
• Leopard_note.xpi (~mod by me) by XNote
• userChrome.css

image of “AccountBar” installs it in skin.
“compact menu” is usually transparent, but reacts to mouse over.
“Leopard_note” [link]

Extension Installation

• Nightly Tester Tools [link]
• Edit Config Files [link]

Fake Button

• “ToDo” of the tool bar button is “Mark”.
• AccountBar（One in three things does not function.）

Installation

1. Open up the Contents of the Thunder.app (Right Click on it –> Show Package Contents)
2. Go to Contents –> MacOS –> chrome
3. Open up your locale version.jar (most likely en-US.jar)
4. Go to your \locale\(local version)\messenger directory (e.g. en-US.jar\\locale\en-US\messenger\
5. Locate messenger.dtd and extract that to a temp place, like your desktop, and open it up in TextEdit.
6. Search for and and change the appropriate fields. (e.g. “Write” to “New Massge”, “Mark” to “To Do”, “Date” to “Date Received”, “Sender” to “From”
7. Finally replace it in the original .jar file.

Here’s a comparison between Mail.app and Thunderbird.

[Image from devianART]

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