Comment 31 for bug 1347305

(In reply to Josiah Bruner [:JosiahOne] from comment #17)
> Blake, sorry to do this to you, but what thoughts do you have on the compose
> ui for all platforms, Linux in particular. Any improvement ideas?

While I love the look of the text fields currently, perhaps we could scale it back a little, and always show the white boxes of the focused state… It's a little more busy, but not totally heinous.

(In reply to calimeroteknik from comment #22)
> More importantly even, I believe that it is more important to stick to the
> look'n'feel of the OS's UI toolkit and theme. In a desktop system, it's
> really nice when you can get the theme used uniformly across applications.

You are certainly within your rights to believe that, but I'm afraid I disagree with you. There's a balance to be struck between looking like each OS, and looking like Thunderbird. You can see how Firefox is trying to balance their application at http://people.mozilla.org/~jgruen/chameleon/#nav7 and having Thunderbird strike a similar balance seems like the right choice to me.

(As a side note, Josiah, you can see in that screenshot how the urlbar remains white even when unfocused. That's kind of what I'm thinking of for our compose fields. Of course we have more of them, so it won't be as clean, but I think I can live with that. Oh, you should also ping Paenglab on irc, and see if he has any thoughts, since he is the Theme owner and all. :)