I was looking at Thunderbird addons (I can't believe something as simple as File->Subscribe was the whole reason I couldn't run TB for a whole year...) I noticed Personas. And I thought (5 minutes ago), the PAM could use Personas. It would solve nearly every single gripe about theming it, including resizing (just grab a different sized persona) and complexity (just make a pic of a certain size). It'd be a good goal for PAM 3.0...
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Yeah, but what's the difference from this and themes?
A theme contains a set of icons, icon placements, and sometimes (often?) a bitmap background and a CSS to tell the text what font/color to be in.
A Persona contains just the background and CSS. It does not change the icons, just the text and background.
Most appealingly (that's a word? Fx spell check let it go, so it must be), Themes require restart. Personas do not.
Personas is more like what the PortableApps.com Platform already has. All you're doing is changing the images. No restart is required. The R34 fork/mod can change more fundamental things, but AFAIK not the official platform.
I was thinking we could feed it an image, and it could give us a cropping/resizing box, and then put it up on the menu.
The list of items shouldn't be too hard because you could just layer a 40% transparent rectangle on top...
Oh my gosh it's already 11...
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Resizing is impossible now because the menu is a fixed size. I am in full agreement with you and others that that should change in the future, but it would change how theming works. I like your idea about a crop/resize box. It would be really cool if the platform included an app (or a standalone app was available) that would let you make your own theme in a hurry. Pick a picture or pattern/gradient, choose your icon set, choose some colors, and optionally, change the header.
It's quarter to 11pm here (Eastern NC). I will be up all night. I always am. Working on my novel here and there... and about to watch the second third of AMC's remake of The Prisoner. Should be a good night.