thunderbird rss feed new article indicator unclear

[Tim Kuijsten]

The rss feed listing in the left pane of thunderbird has a very little yellow star mark on top of the orange rss feed logo if any new articles have been downloaded since the last time you checked.

With more than 50 feeds (apart from articles) this is a really handy feature to see which feeds have new subjects.

Unfortunately, the yellow star is really unclear. In Thunderbird for other platforms the color of the feed title is changed to a distinctive color, this is much clearer than the little yellow star embedded on the orange rss logo in front of the title.

Can we make the "feed has new articles since the last time you clicked on it"-indicator more clear by, for example, changing the color of the title instead of the rss logo?

[Tim Kuijsten (kuijsten)]

I've attached a screenshot where you can see "Hacker News" having some new messages waiting since the last time I checked. Indicated by this really unclear yellow star sign on top of the rss logo. If the title or the rss logo were highlighted by another color, this would be much clearer.

[Tim Kuijsten (kuijsten)]

Or maybe highlighting feed titles only in bold if they have new articles.

[Burkart Lingner (burkart)]

To make the subject etc. of new messages as well as folder names containing new messages blue, execute the following commands in a terminal:

mkdir ~/.thunderbird/*.default/chrome
cat <<EOF >> ~/.thunderbird/*.default/chrome/userChrome.css
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, newMessages-true) {
  color: blue !important;
}
EOF

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.