What’s New in Thunderbird 78

Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 78 by aneutron on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:20AM (#23867309)

I skimmed through the features and was very excited for the dark mode announcement. But that quickly went down the drain when I couldn't find how to force it from the setting, because I'm using i3wm, and there's no "dark mode" per se.

The other thing I'm wondering about is how this will integrate with OpenGPG, more specifically if it will allow the use with smartcards. And it looks like it planned ![1]

Great work Team Thunderbird. Been a fan for the past 5 years, will be for the foreseeable future.

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Status

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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 78 by commotionfever on Friday July 17, 2020 @03:29AM (#23868102)

try set your GTK theme to a dark variant. eg start thunderbird with

    GTK_THEME=<theme>:dark

in my case it's

    GTK_THEME=Arc:dark

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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 78 by aneutron on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:00AM (#23868272)

Thanks ! That works wonderfully !

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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 78 by omertuchfeld on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:26AM (#23868416)

I suggest you also install lxappearance to set the theme globally

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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 78 by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:29AM (#23867354)

Likewise. I know it is merely a cosmetic change, but it is just easier on my eyes.

For me Thunderbird is a way to slowly attempt to disentangle from Google. Thus far it has not been a disappointment. No welcome screen, no problem, there is an option for that. You don't want stuff to be compacted every time it starts, no problem; change one value to false. If only most programs were like that today.

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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 78 by Legogris on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:55AM (#23867514)

Thunderbird is GTK. Does it not work if you configure a dark GTK theme?

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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 78 by aneutron on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:01AM (#23868279)

I'm using i3wm, so I thought there's no way to do it. But a friendly user showed me the env variable to set in a comment after this one.

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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 78 by Legogris on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:29AM (#23868439)

You can configure GTK regardless of your WM. xmonad here.

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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 78 by Boulth6 on Friday July 17, 2020 @02:39AM (#23867792)

> The other thing I'm wondering about is how this will integrate with OpenGPG, more specifically if it will allow the use with smartcards. And it looks like it planned ![1]

Actually smartcards were already supported when I tested alpha some time ago. Thunderbird used GpgME to talk to GnuPG and GnuPG talked to the smartcard.

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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 78 by gmueckl on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:41AM (#23871007)

The OpenPGP support is based on Enigmail (ginally merged in!), which has been a wrapper around GPG all along. GPG does all the actual cryptography in this setup.

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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 78 by mugsie on Friday July 17, 2020 @09:57AM (#23870497)

Is it supported? I tried to add a secret key on a smartcard, and it failed

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