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Call For A New Default Theme For Mozilla Sunbird

Posted by timothy on from the snide-remark-about-rendering dept.

synopsis5 writes "The developers of Mozilla Sunbird, the standalone version of Mozilla Calendar, are looking for a new default theme and are asking the community to build a new one. Interested theme creators should read the guidelines posted in the MozillaZine Themes forum, which feature complete details. Submitted work must be licensed under the standard MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license and a rough showcase needs to be produced by Tuesday 13th July for the theme to be considered. A few showcases have already been brought forth and are discussed. Take a look!"

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  1. Re:This will sound bad by synopsis5 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your information is outdated. Firefox and Thunderbird won't go through another name change again. Three name changes for Firefox (mozilla/browser -> Phoenix -> Firebird -> Firefox) and one name change for Thunderbird (Minotaur -> Thunderbird) are clearly enough. You can't build up a successful brand, which is recognized by people if you keep on changing the name every few months.

  2. A Hidden Treasure? by erinacht · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is news to me! I use my palm desktop software for contact management and I'm quite happy with it/reluctant to change, but I like the fact that my happy pair of Firebird and Thunderbird could be complimented by Sunbird (probably to be changed to Fitbird or such...)
    I'll download it tonight and give it a whirl, I seem to remember a palm sync thing with old netscape so I'm presuming this is still possible...
    It does look a bit ugly right enough, a new theme based on firefox/thunderbird would be welcome.

  3. Charamel ? by theefer · · Score: 3, Informative

    In my opinion, the greatest, cutest Firefox/Thunderbird theme is Charamel. It'd be great if they would make a Sunbird theme as well.

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    theefer
    1. Re:Charamel ? by DeadSea · · Score: 3, Informative

      The buttons are too big in Charamel. I prefer pinball.

  4. Re:iCal by synopsis5 · · Score: 3, Informative

    iCal is the native calendar format that Sunbird uses. See this faq entry. Try it out. You can easily import iCal calendars and subscribe to them. Some calendars to which you can subscribe to are available on this page.

    For the more technical guys:
    Sunbird uses libical as its calendar engine. This library is available under the MPL or the LGPL.

  5. Re:This will sound bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    So it will be:

    Mozilla Browser...

    BZZZT, wrong. You're several years out of date, mate. If they're going to drop the Firefox name and call it "Mozilla Browser", why are they SPENDING MONEY building up the Firefox brand identity? Why have they registered Firefox as a trademark if it's only a working title?

  6. Re:This will sound bad by synopsis5 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The site (I guess you mean the roadmap) is outdated and has been for outdated for nearly a year. An update has been promised a couple of times but never delivered.

    But one thing is clear:
    Neither Firefox nor Thunderbird nor Sunbird will be renamed when they reach 1.0