If you're running a recent version of Thunderbird, you might want to have
a look at our articles covering Thunderbird 1.5.
An introduction to Thunderbird, part 9
Thunderbird and themes
From one time to another you can grow tired of looking at the same
theme all the time, by "theme" I mean the the look of the user interface. If
you do grow tired of the theme, there is something you can do about it,
throughout this article I will try to show you how you can swap the
looks on the Mozilla Thunderbird interface.
Start up the Thunderbird client, head to Tools > Themes, if you navigated correctly, you should be looking
at this window:
In the bottom right corner of the window you have a hyperlink which says
"Get new themes"; press it. Thunderbird will now open the link
using your default browser, and you are directed to the Themes download
page. Download the theme you want to try, remember it's really not a
hassle to remove it if you don't want it. When you have downloaded the
new theme, go back to Thunderbird, Tools > Themes.
In the bottom right corner of the window you have a button named
"Install New Theme", press it. Locate your downloaded file and press "OK".
Press "OK". You will now have to close Thunderbird and start it again,
if you have done the process correctly your Thunderbird should now have a
completely new look, check out the one I tested:
There you go, almost like a whole new application. :) As you download
new themes you can chose a new one whenever you feel like it. All you
have to do is go Tools > Themes and choose one of the
other themes. Bon apetite! :)
This is the ninth in a series of articles about Thunderbird, if you
have Thunderbird related topics you'd like to see covered here, let us
know. Comments on this article, thumbs up or flames, can be sent to
articles@nidelven-it.no.
If you need help using Thunderbird, we recommend
using the
Thunderbird forums.
Go to part
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9.
- Part 1, Installation and account setup
- Part 2, Basic features and buttons
- Part 3, How to make a signature
- Part 4, Attachments and the address book
- Part 5, Junk filter (handling spam and unwanted mail)
- Part 6, Importing mail from other mail clients
- Part 7, Organizing your mail, with mail filters
- Part 8, Newsgroups
- Part 9, Themes
If you're running a recent version of Thunderbird, you might want to have
a look at our articles covering Thunderbird 1.5.
If you find these articles useful, you might also want to check out the
introduction to Firefox,
introduction to Open Office,
Plone or
the introduction to Gaim. We're always
looking for more translators.
