Bling My Tabs: 'native' theme produces white-on-white

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

QuickFolders 5.14.
Windows 10 Pro - 21H2 (2009: 19044)
Thunderbird 102.5

[nmadani]

I am experiencing the same problem with a later version on macOS Ventura. It appears that the "Current Folder Toolbar background" setting does not work.

[RealRaven2000]

I am experiencing the same problem with a later version on macOS Ventura. It appears that the "Current Folder Toolbar background" setting does not work.

Could you provide a screenshot of the QuickFolders toolbar including the standard toolbar? I would like to see whether it has the same background color. Do you use a special theme (e.g. dark theme) or just the default?

[RealRaven2000]

I believe it's a problem with the QuickFolders "apple pills" theme that it wasn't / isn't aware of dark themes and just defaulted to bright background without changing the text color to dark. I will see if I can force it to use the colors provided by the theme.

[RealRaven2000]

one more thing - here on Windows 10 I see the following, using a custom theme "metal flowers - animated":

If I switch to the default dark theme provided by Thunderbird, it looks like this:

If you can, try and activate one of these themes on Mac to see whether it makes any difference.

[nmadani]

Thank you. I applied the metal flowers animated theme. It had no impact on the appearance of the tabs:

[RealRaven2000]

I am experiencing the same problem with a later version on macOS Ventura. It appears that the "Current Folder Toolbar background" setting does not work.

In this screenshot you show the "Flat theme" - this has full color customization here:

Settings / Bling / Uncolored tabs:

There are 2 color pickers for text and background (background only in 2-colors mode)
If you select one of the three palettes (Standard / Pastel / Night Vision) you can select a preset which uses a gradient "picture" for the background. You can select the color by clicking on the preview tab:

The Current Folder toolbar is actually displayed in the center of the screen (above email preview)

In the example I use a custom background:

linear-gradient(to left, rgba(221,107,0,1) 0%,rgba(201,164,0,1) 14%,rgba(0,128,0,1) 33%,rgba(0,128,0,1) 33%,rgba(0,10,155,1) 50%,rgba(75,0,130,1) 66%,rgba(160,25,151,1) 84%,rgba(181,0,0,1) 100%)

What elements are shown on the Current Folder Toolbar can be configured on the Advanced tab of QF settings.

[RealRaven2000]

@LinuxOnTheDesktop by the way the tabs are painted is under full control of the operating system - personally I use Stardock Windowblinds, so with that skinning engine, native tabs look like this:

What font color windows is going to use here is hard to predict (and depends on many factors such as windows customization etc.) - I think the best way forward would just be a font color picker to override what windows suggests.

[nmadani]

You were correct. It looks like a theme issue. Having found the settings under the advance tab, I did not even notice that there was a Bing My Tabs! tab. I switched to the Apple Pills theme and can see the tab labels.

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

If it matters - for, is this ostensible bug really a bug? - the same white-on-white effect occurs on Thunderbird SuperNova (115.0.1 x64) on Windows 10 (Pro - 22H2 2009: 19045) with QF 6.1pre28.

[RealRaven2000]

If it matters - for, is this ostensible bug really a bug? - the same white-on-white effect occurs on Thunderbird SuperNova (115.0.1 x64) on Windows 10 (Pro - 22H2 2009: 19045) with QF 6.1pre28.

That could just be the default background color - it uses a system variable, have you tried selecting a color:

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

Here is what happens when I select a 'Toolbar background'. (The pink rectangles are redaction.)

And ticking 'the transparency option did not help.

The colours options displayed in your screenshot, Raven, do not appear (on my system anyway) when I have 'native tabs' as the theme.

[RealRaven2000]

The colours options displayed in your screenshot, Raven, do not appear (on my system anyway) when I have 'native tabs' as the theme.

The "native..." theme really doesn't work that well - the OS paints the buttons / tabs and does whatever it thinks, there isn't much that the Thunderbird /Firefox engine can do with the background of those buttons. So you just don't have these options unless you choose the "Flat" theme - that's by design.

[RealRaven2000]

As regards "Native" buttons - The only thing I can offer is to add a color picker for the font on top of the buttons, I think that one may be customizable.