Mozilla Firefox and WindowBlinds

July 21, 2004 7:05 AM from

How come Mozilla Firefox doesn't react to WindowBlinds like IE does?

The dropdown menu's don't look like the ones in IE.

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Reply #1 July 21, 2004 7:19 AM from

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Because Firefox is already skinnable which means it's drawing it's UI pieces itself. All programs that draw their own UI are difficult at best for WB to tie into. Unfortunately there's not a whole lot SD can do about it either.

Reply #2 July 21, 2004 7:23 AM from

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Ahh oh well. Thanks for the quick reply.

Reply #3 July 21, 2004 11:07 AM from

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WB skins my Firefox and Mozilla just as well as it does IE, bit I'm not applying any different skins to FF or Moz. I'm on my lunch at work now, I'll have to check my FF settings when I get home and let you know.

Reply #4 July 21, 2004 11:12 AM from

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WB skins my Firefox fine also, perhapes you have a theme already loaded.

Reply #5 July 21, 2004 11:46 AM from

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I think hes talking about the menubar background and buttons. On my machine, WB skins (firefox) windowtop, scrollbars, buttons etc...
But it doesnt skin Status bar, menubar background, dropdown menus.....

Reply #6 July 21, 2004 12:06 PM from

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Menu Items seem to be classic style.
Drop down background and drop down item is classic.
Toolbar buttons are skinned but not toolbar icons.
Everything else seems skinned.

Reply #7 July 21, 2004 2:25 PM from

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It all depends on what Firefox theme is applied. WB will skin anything that is not skinned by the Firefox theme. WB skins my entire Firefox. I use the Qute Firefox theme and it only seems to skin the button icon images and nothing else, so WB takes care of the rest.

Reply #8 July 21, 2004 2:56 PM from

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I tried Qute them and your right. Looks good too.

It still doesnt skin dropdown menus though.

Can these themes be edited??

Reply #9 July 21, 2004 10:18 PM from

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Yeah it won't skin the dropdown boxes.

Reply #10 July 21, 2004 10:32 PM from

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I'm just using the default theme and WB is applying the background to the toolbars. It doesn't skin the drop-down menus, although it does apply the skin background color to the menus. [click on my screen name to see my screenshot]

Reply #11 July 22, 2004 12:21 PM from

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If you want to skin the pulldown menus...http://cute.mozdev.org/

You can modify this skin to your liking as I have.

Reply #12 July 23, 2004 4:07 AM from

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Those icons will definitely help me differentiate those menu items that are too similar. Thanks!
The actual menus in FireFox can't be skinned by WindowBlinds (or msstyle for that matter). There are some things you can do to make it look a bit better though: http://texturizer.net/firefox/tips.html#app_xpmenus

Reply #13 July 26, 2004 9:52 AM from

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Thanks Messy Buu, that helped a whole lot!

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