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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. This will sound bad by obeythefist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But why aren't a lot of these open source projects labelled a little more clearly? Thankfully the topic actually mentions that Sunbird is a Calendar. Although you ask a guy on the street what "Firefox" is and they'll think it's a TV show. You ask them what Internet Explorer is and they'll tell you it's a web browser.

    Wouldn't it help if it was called the "Sunbird Calendar" and "Firefox browser"?

    --
    I am government man, come from the government. The government has sent me. -- G.I.R.
    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      Your information is outdated.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. Re:This will sound bad by FictionPimp · · Score: 5, Funny

      Firefox: The act of lighting a small animal on fire and letting it go loose to discover new areas in the world you would of never traveled too before.

      Thank sounds plain enough to me.

  2. All well and good... by skinfitz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But will it talk to Exchange?