Color for Thunderbird accounts

[Grisu70]

I'd like to have the possibility to change color to each account label and icon.

Fabrizio 

[MilkThief]

Need it as I need to breathe...

[ricardo_mm]

Account colours

Please implement something that you broke in Thunderbird 118.

Several people tried to create plugins to change the acount colours that were working just fine and you keep breaking them. Example : https://github.com/gazhay/accountcolors

Can you please implement something like that deafult in thunderbird? I have 6 accounts and I don't know where the emails come from because you keep breaking something as simple as this.

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[Vigilans]

Hello Everyone,

I've updated my fork of accountcolors plugin to support Thunderbird 128 (Nebula). It keeps compatible with Thunderbird 115 and 102 (My previous comment for 115 support did not get posted after edit).

You can download it at here. Future updates will be published at https://github.com/Vigilans/accountcolors/releases.

Issues can be posted at https://github.com/Vigilans/accountcolors/issues.

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New Features

1. Thread Pane

1.1 Color Row Background as Label in Card View

For each thread pane's card row, their background color will be rendered as a small label in the leftmost of the card.

• The label's width can be configured.
• The label's position can be set to be indented/not indented for thread submessages.

Thunderbird 128:

Thunderbird 115:

1.2 Color Row Background as Label in Table View

For each thread pane's table row, their background color will be rendered as a small label in the leftmost of the column.

• The label's width can be configured.
• The label's position can be set to be at subject column, or at first column of the row.

2. Folder Pane

2.1 Render Account Background Color as Icon Color

For account folders, and all subfolders in each Unified Folders (Inbox, Draft, etc.), their background color will be rendered as folder icon's color.

2.2 Render Folder Background Color as Icon Color

For normal folders, their background color will be rendered as foler icons color (The orange and blue ones).

• If any folder is named as one of its identity's email or name (the purple one), that folder and all its subfolders will be rendered with that identity's color.

2.3 Color Unread / Total Background

The folder's unread / total messages badge's background can be colored now.

• It will not affect new message's background color.

3. Message Pane

3.1 Color Header Background as Label

Message header's background will be rendered as a small label in the leftmost area.

• The label's width can be configured.

4. Compose Pane

4.1 Color Identity Background as Label in From Menu

Identity entry's background will be rendered as a small label in the leftmost of the row.

• The label's width can be configured.

[seeley]

Very nice plugin. Took a while to figure it out how to get the affect as shown in your first screenshot in the thread pane but I got it. Works nice. Thanks so much!

[Jon]

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[seeley]

Any way to get this working in v141.0? Thanks. I posted an explanation here:

I just manually updated (within TB) from 139.0 to 141.0 and Account Colors plugin was still installed and it's settings were intact, but not showing any of it's colors or customizations in the TB's UI. Is there a way to get this working in 141.0? Thanks.

Luckily, before updating I saved copies of my 139.0 install directory and the 139.0 Local and Roaming folders and I manually just put these folders back in place (after deleting the new folders) and now I'm back on 139.0 and Account Colors is working fine again. Whew!

EDIT: Checked the manifest.json (vers 15.0) and it already says strict_max_version is 150.*

https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/1kd0xi7/comment/myxollf/

[josiasmat]

+1

[wsm]

Thank you all for your comments and votes.

Account color is available in Account Settings next to Account Name as of version 128, via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1482172.  If further improvement is desired, please create a new idea.

Questions about the Account Colors add-on should please be directed to the add-on author listed at https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/account-colors, or feel free to create a thread in discussion with an appropriate title.

One action I will take is split off "different colors for each identity (!=account)" into its own idea.

[wsm]

different colors for each identity (!=account) has moved to https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/different-colors-for-each-identity-account/idi-p/101769