Thunderbird 3 TreeView selected color is hard to read

[Alex Eftimie]

Binary package hint: light-themes

The color for updated folders in thunderbird is too light. Screenshot attached.

[Mitch Towner (kermiac)]

I can confirm this on an up-to-date lucid install. The colour of the folders with new mail is as shown in the screenshot attached by the OP.

[Rashkae (rashkae)]

I think this bug should be moved to the Thunderbird package (not that you can get upstream to fix anything they broke from 2.x to 3.x). There are several themes and colors this new feature will mis-behave with.

A work around is to create a chome/userChrome.css file in your Thunderbird profile directory and add this code:

treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, newMessages-true) {
font-weight: bold;
color: #000000 !important;
}

Note that color: #000000 is black,,, modify to your taste.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

Hopefully this is not an issue anymore or at least it's less annoying (light-themes updated since Maverick and Thunderbird goes on v9...)