Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Lucy on Oct. 9, 2011 ·

This theme made me switch to Thunderbird in the first place, but I don't like the newest "design improvement". I'm an Aero addict, and I thought it was absolutely perfect (and worth the donation) before the Aero was removed to provide better readability (I was able to read it fine before.) I can't even seem to find 1.3.1 to revert back and I'm rather disappointed in that fact. If I could at least have a choice, that would be wonderful. The Aero is most definitely missed though. :(

Update: Since I can't seem to reply to you and I don't want to submit a whole other review for no reason, I'll just edit this and hope you see it. Thank you for the quick response, and I do appreciate it very much. It's a shame about 1.3.1, but I understand. The 1.2.4 is what I reverted back to until I saw how badly lightning looked with it, so it's not an option. I'm sure it's probably not possible to add an option to enable/disable Aero, or probably worth your time, but that would be a fantastic compromise.

I'm probably going to stop using Thunderbird, as the issues I have with it aren't balanced with how awestruck I am aesthetically. Thank you again for the quick and friendly reply. It really is a wonderful theme. ♥

Edit 2: A separate Aero version would be the best thing ever. I understand not having much time, but I will most definitely keep checking often. Your theme makes Thunderbird so beautiful, that even despite a few quirks of TB I don't like, I can't help but be happy with using it. ♥

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.2.4.1). 

by steva (Developer) on Oct. 9, 2011 ·

thanks for your review. I m sorry that you don t like the new design, but depending what is open behind the window, the aero glass effect is quite disturbing. It messes a bit (especially with the main menu and inactive tabs, the text shadow is not enough to make to show up well the white text). If you want, you can revert to the 1.2.4.1 version, but few things I ve fixed in last version won t be available. Here is the link for download > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/bloomind-tt-deepdark/versions/
You can t acces anymore the 1.3.1 version because the one you installed was not reviewed by Mozilla so when I uploaded the 1.3.2 version Mozilla disabled the 1.3.1. I ll have to see if I have still that file on my computer. usually I only save the reviewed versions. So I don t think I still have it.
For the moment I ll leave the theme as it is. But if I receive massive requests to set back the aero, I ll change it. Thanks for understanding and sorry again for inconvenience.

Regards

Edit : Indeed lightning addon doesn t render as before with the 1.2.4.1 version because the new lightning version overrided my settings (I needed to fix that in the 1.3.2 version). For the moment I don t have enough knowledge to create a theme that can allow user to switch between aero and non aero. Only thing I can do, is to create a separed aero version, this way, who likes aero download it and who wants the version with solid background can aslo have it. I don t have time right now, but I ll think to do that. So check time to time if there is a new version available. I can t do more than this for moment, because of my knowledge and also because of time.