Make Thunderbird resemble Leopard Mail

but where is download button deviantart page has all the information but where the hell they have hided download button

This is the most misleading UTAW post to what is actually a HORRENDOUSLY complicated setup of a theme, which I have given up on.

I mean... you need to install a theme and 3 extensions, go fiddling with files that Leopard can't open ("invalid" JAR files?!)...

My suggestion to Mac people is just forget it.

It doesn't work.

-Alister

PS I bed Dave Caolo (the author of this article) saw the screenshot but never actually tried to install this thing. LAZY!

Ok. Most confusing directions ever. I give up. This is by no means "simple"

Hank - you'll need to use something like UnRarX to extract the files.

This post is pretty misleading, really - "After download, simply apply the skin via Thunderbird's Add-Ons option" should read "After download, simply extract the files, apply the skin, install a variety of extensions, make a few modifications to your userChrome.css and tweak a locale file, restarting Thunderbird after every step, etc. etc.".

That said, it's probably worth the effort!

I guess this doesn't work on Macs. I tried downloading it but just get a .rar file both Thunderbird and Leopard don't know what to do with.

So long as this doesn't make Thunderbird replicate the constant crashing of Mail.app.

I, for one, hate the way Mail looks. I think it's a sore thumb in Apple's otherwise great array of designs. The "capsules"? What is with that? Why can't it have a normal toolbar? It makes icons difficult to see, and it's not consistent with the rest of the UI, at least not to the extent that normal icons or Safari/Finder-style icons would be. I just don't get it. The rest of Mail's looks is not bad, but that top -- man alive.

Wow, that skin really puts the lotion in the basket. It WILL NOT be getting the hose again. The poodle is definitely not hurt real bad...

Pass those fava beans

I'm confused... I applied the skin, and it looks nothing like the screenshot. The shade of the window is near white, not the dark grey your screenshot shows. Apparently my font was set to a different default than what the screenshot shows as well. However, even if I change it to something like Lucida Grande, it still looks ridiculous. Can you detail how you got the dark gray window and the fonts to look like that?