Making it easy to change the unread email color

[thuman5]

I've worked at a couple of different places where users were color blind to blue and another to red and having a quick and easy way to be able to change the color of unread mail would be greatly appreciated by those people who can't tell the difference between blue and black. Bold and not bold isn't as easy to spot when looking at an inbox full of emails, and requiring someone to create a userchrome file buried in the AppData folder is probably a little more than most users are willing to do...

[Jon]

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[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Take a look at https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/customisable-colors-for-new-received-message/idi-p/71718
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1440879 if you wish to test userChome.css

/* threads pane unread colour table view */
#threadTree tr[data-properties~="unread"] {
color: red !important; }

/* threads pane new colour table view */
#threadTree tr[data-properties~="new"] {
color: green !important; }

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userChrome.css

Create a chrome folder
Move userChrome.css to your chrome folder

Go to your profile folder https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data#w_how-do-i-find-my-...

Move your chrome folder to your profile folder

Go to Configuration Editor https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/config-editor
Enter a search term toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and set its value to true

Restart Thunderbird

Others colors https://www.w3schools.com/colors/default.asp
If you modify userChrome.css, restart Thunderbird.

Below, screenshots under Thunderbird beta

Table ViewCards View

[thuman5]

Yes, Ive done that but there is a great majority of users who are not comfortable doing all of that. It should just be a setting under Views or where ever to change the color of unread mails. A simple dialog with a color selector for text color. Most users do not want to get into creating a folder where most people shouldn't venture in the first place, then create a simple text file and save it in the netly created folder. Choosing a color from a pallette and clicking on ok would be and is much easier for the masses..

[thuman5]

Something like the pictured is and would be much easier and user friendly.

This screen shot taken from the Outlook client.