As of yesterdays nightly, Thunderbird has got an early version of a Gnomestripe theme. It now uses system icons for the folders and replaces the Mozilla themed icons with ones in Tango style, which make it look much more like a Gnome application.
What is still missing though are the icons for the main toolbar and natively themed tabs, but I think we can expect these for the final release of Thunderbird3. Together with the nice interface improvements this will make Thunderbird a really great alternative to Evolution and hopefully make it also the default mail client for Karmic.
The next items on my wishlist for Thunderbird are integration with the notification/ indicator system in Ubuntu and integration with the gnome calendar,
Thanks a lot for all your work… Thunderbird and Ubuntu are a big part of my desktop. 🙂
Regards
Hi i would just like to know where exactly i can get this Gnomestripe theme?
I seem to be incapable of finding it
Thanks
The Gnomestripe theme is the default in Thunderbird trunk and it requires features from xulrunnter 1.9 which is also used in trunk.
So the easies way to get the theme is to download the latest nightly:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/