Comment 35 for bug 1347305

(In reply to Guido Zoellner from comment #26)
Some of that CSS does kind of improve the situation, but I still get that weird flat design, with next to no contrast, and therefore really hard to use.

(In reply to Blake Winton (:bwinton) from comment #23)
> (In reply to calimeroteknik from comment #22)
> > 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.
I'm actually very sad it came so far as to having to say this:
I have no idea what “looking like Thunderbird” should even mean. An application has a purpose and an usage; giving it an “identity” by doing unusual and disorientating things with the design of functional parts of it is a slippery slope up from functionality down to nobody knows what.
> 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.
So far, firefox has always kept its UI in sync with the system theme colors, and anyway complies with the worldwide standards of text fields coloring; the matter at hand is that currently, that's not quite what thunderbird does.

Firefox looks good, so I think that everybody would be satisfied with an alignment to that, indeed!