Posted
07 June 2004 @ 12 PM

Tagged
web, open_source, windows

6 Comments

The Fox and the open bag

Winstripe Theme

The Firefox visual identity team has decided on changing the default theme of Firefox in preparation of the impending 1.0 release. As often in the open source community, this has caused some furor in the mozilla dev community with people taking sides with the earlier theme author who is equally furious. The fault was his own. He was hesitant in releasing his Qute theme with the same license as MPL. So the team thought of porting the hugely popular Pinstripe OSX Firefox and Thunderbird themes to Windows. They call it Winstripe. Although its only Work In Progress and is basically a mish-mash of the Qute, Pinstripe & XP Luna themes, I am liking it™.

6 Comments (closed)

Posted by
Sachin GK

08 June 2004 @ 1 PM

Codey go to themeXP .org and fiddle around. There is a theme there called Panther. You might have to change a few .dll files to get the correct look and feel. As an alternative you could also try any of the freeware/shareware programs to load the themes or visual styles.

Posted by
Sachin

07 June 2004 @ 4 PM

Actually am more of an Opera user!! Sure they serve ads, but thier functionality is still unbeatable. In these days with broad[cough]band being the norm, the difference is not really noticeable

Posted by
codey

07 June 2004 @ 5 PM

How in the world do you manage to get it to look like OSX?

Posted by
Nilesh

07 June 2004 @ 2 PM

Incidently my favourite Firefox themes are Breeze, LeBreeze and Gnome Stock 2.0 (Blue) ! :) I liked Smoke when these themes were not around. Another favourite is Lynchknot's SAF evolution. It goes well when I mod my Windows desktop completely to look like the Panther UI on OSX.

Posted by
codey

07 June 2004 @ 2 PM

My fav is Le Breeze Play because it inverts the base of the tabs, if they could have done the same in Gnome Stock 2 I'd have stuck to it :)

Posted by
Kingsley

07 June 2004 @ 2 PM

I use a theme called smoke, very understated, and about the only thing that doesn't look ugly when the tabs are on the side (I keep a lot of windows open and I need to tabs on the side to read the titles clearly). Pinstripe is a decent theme, I use it on the Mac. But this adaptation doesn't seem to resemble the pinstripe theme so much. And yes, it's important that the theme follow my desktop color scheme.