Numerous subskins are included. To use them, put the appropriate line in your userChrome.css, before the namespace line. (Scrollbar subskins also require the import line in userContent.css. Do not add the namespace line to your userContent.css.)
VectorLinux userfiles
To see the default VL userChrome.css and userContent.css included with SM 1.1.18, navigate to /opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.18/defaults/profile/US/chrome. These are the userfiles used in the creation of a new profile; they do not affect profiles already created.
If you want to update your userChrome.css and userContent.css to the most recent, these can be copied over into your profile. If you’ve customised the ones in your profile, make sure to keep a backup copy so you won’t lose your tweaks.
Otherwise, add or remove subskins by adding or removing the import urls, in the userChrome.css or userContent.css present in your VectorLinux SeaMonkey profile’s chrome folder. Do not edit the userfiles in /opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.18/defaults/profile/US/chrome.
Alternate throbbers
In addition to the new default throbber, there are several alternate throbbers you can use.
Globe with GNU head, based on GNUzilla's GNU logo:
The VectorLinux edition of this theme uses VectorLinux throbbers by default. These are based on VectorLinux logo imagework, and on the VL kmenu icons used in the SOHO edition.
Regular default throbber, based on artwork by Nicubunu:
1.0 and 1.1b seem to require slightly different margins for the page-proxy-favicon when using these urlbar subskins. For now, on 1.0.x builds, if you see a slight vertical distortion of the favicon, either place this in your userChrome.css:
Round tabs (not for use with TBE, Multizilla, and possibly other tabbed browsing extensions); see below for TBE support and Multizilla support.
Round tabs (flat style):
Square tabs Square non-content tab subskins can be used with the round tab subskins. However, you can't use the semi-square non-content tab subskin with the square tab subskin. There is no semi-square subskin for all tabs (ie, for content as well as non-content tabs).
Scrollbars*
There are two slightly different scrollbar subskins To use these subskins, put one or the other of the following two lines in both userChrome.css and userContent.css (like all user
scrollbar code, this must go in both userChrome.css and userContent.css to work; do not put the namespace line in userContent.css):
*Use caution with these scrollbar subskins when applying KDE or QT themes/styles to GTK apps in GNU+Linux! It will crash SeaMonkey. Using these with some other gtk themes may also cause crashes. Use at your own risk. See bugs.
Menu icons
To place icons in the menus (The menuicon will also appear greyed-out when that menu/menuitem is disabled. Now works with any language, courtesy of CatThief and Andr3a. Not compatible with Cute Menus extension):
Misc.css applies non-native styles to the following elements: radio buttons, checkboxes, listboxes, and tree twisties. These styles match the styles used for menuitem radio and checkboxes in the menuicons subskin. These and other styles may be applied individually by using any or all of the following import urls:
urlbar
dropmarker fix for mac os x
May be necessary to make urlbar dropmarker show up in mac os x (?). Also may be useful when using KDE / QT styles for gtk apps (without it, you'll see numerous gecko errors when starting SM from the terminal; these may or may not result in instability — see bugs).
Eliminate SSL urlbar indicator effect(nightly builds only; experimental)
As of July 2006, nightly builds (1.8 branch and trunk) allow for indicating secure connections via the urlbar. As of Nereid Version 20060723-1, this is enabled by default (though you won't see it unless you're running a nightly build). If you don't like this feature, you can use these subskins to make the urlbar not change appearance on secure sites. You need to match the no-ssl subskin to the urlbar subskin (if any) you're using. If you're not using any round urlbar subskin, use this one:
Round tabs support for TBE (Tabbrowser Extensions)
These use the same styles and background images as the non-tbe round tabs; only the coding is different.
Due to differences between TBE versions, two import urls are now required.
First, you must specify the settings (margins & padding) stylesheet for different versions of TBE. Currently, this is available for TBE versions 20051117; and 20060124 through 2006022301, and may work with others. Use the following depending on version; if you have a different version, try each. (TBE versions from 20060124 on should use tbe-20060124.css, until a new style sheet is necessary.)
Don't show unneeded component
bar icons
The integration of SeaMonkey is great, but there are some components
you may not need the component bar icons for. Use only the parts of the following you
need:
#mini-nav, /* the navigator icon */
#mini-mail, /* the mail icon */
#mini-comp, /* the composer icon */
#mini-addr, /* the addressbook icon */
#mini-irc, /* the chatzilla icon */
#mini-cal /* the calendar icon */ {
display: none !important;
}
Hide component bar buttons, but show them when hovered
You can save statusbar space by using the following code. It will hide the taskbarbuttons within the component bar, but show them when hovered. The component bar will be present as a small (about 10 px wide) blank statusbarpanel.
You can also specify the height of the component bar, so it doesn't increase in height a few pixels when hovered. This will vary from theme to theme, though, so may not be desirable. In any case, it's only needed if you normally show no taskbarbuttons at all; if you show at least one normally, the height will be static.
#component-bar {
min-height: 24px;
}
Or, you can hide the component bar completely, but show it when the statusbar is hovered:
You can also specify the minimum height of the statusbar:
statusbar {
min-height: 24px;
}
Again, this setting will vary from theme to theme.
For all these, it's also possible to specify only one component window, or have different settings for different component windows. For example, for mail, you can use this to show the component bar always:
UserChrome.css, userContent.css and user.js, are three files located in your profile, which allow you to customise how SeaMonkey looks and acts (the interface is controlled by userChrome.css, and the content displayed is controlled by userContent.css; preferences can be set with user.js). They don't exist by default, so you have to create them. An extension, ChromEdit, provides an easy tabbed interface for editing them from within SeaMonkey. It's possible to completely theme SeaMonkey just by using userChrome.css and userContent.css. Any changes you make in these files only take place after SeaMonkey is restarted, since the files are read when SeaMonkey opens.
What's a Nereid?
One of the 50 (or even 100) daughters of Nereus and Doris ... sea-deities in Greek mythology.
Why are the unselected tabs italic until you look at them, and then regular afterwards? Why don't they go back to being italic after you click onto another tab?
The italic font doesn't indicate that a tab is not selected. It indicates that you haven't read the tab yet. Once you've read the tab (selected and clicked on it), the tab font stays normal, to indicate you've already visited that tab. See userChrome tweaks to change.
I don't like all the round icons!
Then why are you using a theme which is based on round icons? View > Apply Theme
Do the subskins slow down SeaMonkey?
Under normal circumstances, they shouldn't. Still, some slower, older systems may experience problems with some of them. If you experience that, you can always turn the subskins off.
Can you add support for X extension?
Maybe, depending on what that involves. Ask (it helps if you provide a link to the extension website).
What's with the different colours for the preference items in the config subskin?
There's a new version of Nereid
available. How do I upgrade?
The easiest way is close SeaMonkey, then navigate to your profile, and replace the old nereid.jar with the updated nereid.jar. You can also go to Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Themes, and uninstall the theme from there. Close SeaMonkey, navigate to your profile chrome directory, and remove the old nereid.jar. Then, restart SeaMonkey, and install the new version.
VectorLinux
VectorLinux packages provide this theme in the app directory: look for it in /opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-version/chrome. For SeaMonkey-1.1.18, this would be /opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.18/chrome.
Why does the about page want to set cookies?
They remember which about page stylesheet you prefer ("aboutstyle"), and also in some cases aid navigation ("scroll"). They are under the site "global" (since this url is chrome://global/skin/about/about.html). They're organic, vegan, low cholesterol and low sugar.
Are there other download locations for your themes in addition to incognu.com??
show the styleswitcher for the about page: (javascript required)
Bugs
You may email bug reports to incognu@mighty.co.za
Please include "Nereid" in the subject line.
Ideally, bug reports should contain:
a clear description of the bug
any subskins used, if applicable
seamonkey version
theme version
operating system and desktop
a screenshot illustrating the problem
When changing from text-only to pictures + text mode, the text for the Go and Search buttons is incorrectly placed above, rather than below, the button icons. Closing and re-opening SeaMonkey corrects this, as does opening a new SeaMonkey navigator window. Another way is to simply press F11 (full screen) twice (may not always work).
I only develop and test in GNU+Linux (mainly modified DIY/LFS, VectorLinux, Slackware and Debian) with KDE and gtk2, so I don't see bugs which are specific to another OS. Duplicating a bug is a big part of fixing it; this can make fixes for bugs which appear on other operating systems problematic. In addition to these difficulties, I have very little interest in maintaining support for non-free operating systems, and will be phasing it out in the future.
Before reporting a bug, make sure you've tested with the most recent version of the theme.
There are a very few items in the menuicons subskin for which a language-independent id, command, etc isn't available; these may not work correctly in all languages.
The round tabs subskins may not work when using various tab extensions, although there is now partial support for TBE and Multizilla.
gtk-qt engine and applying kde / qt styles to gtk apps
There are some bugs with this, which I haven't been able to resolve. Some problems seem to originate with the gtk-qt engine. When a theme uses some native widgets (menulist-dropmarker, autocomplete-history-dropmarker, and radio, in particular) and these styles are used, xsession errors result. For example, you may see this in the terminal or .xsession-errors:
This may also cause instability and crashes in some cases. Use at your own risk. Most likely, if you can apply those styles while using Classic, you can apply them with Nereid, with one exception: the scrollbar subskins:
The scrollbar subskins can crash SeaMonkey when used in conjunction with some gtk styles, or when kde styles are applied to gtk apps. Known styles that crash SeaMonkey when using the scrollbar subskins include cleanice, cleanice dark, and qt. Known styles that work okay with the subskins include smoothline and default. The following, saved as crashme.css in the chrome directory of your profile, and called with @import url("crashme.css");in both userChrome.css and userContent.css, can crash SM when native scrollbars are used in the theme, and KDE styles applied:
At first I thought this was a problem with SeaMonkey, but it seems the problem is more with the gtk-qt-engine. Konsole errors of the same sort occur with other gtk apps as well, when using this engine. The latest version suggests a userChrome.css / userContent.css patch for scrollbars, which removes the up-down scrollbarbutton. Using that will result in a truncated bottom / right scrollbarbutton set when using the themed scrollbarbutton subskins, and is not supported by this theme's non-native scrollbar subskins. So, if you use that userfiles patch when applying kde / qt styles, you may wish to comment it out if you change gtk styles, and apply a scrollbar subskin.
The native-look for the urlbar dropmarker may not work correctly in Mac OS X. If not, use the non-native urlbar-dropmarker subskin.
Some of this may be out of date!
Description and Credits
My personal re-interpretation of OCC.
Icon set somewhat loosely developed from coloured orbit icons used in my OCC theme. That theme used icons based on Orbit Retro by Chris Neale and updated by Scarrow. Some OCC icon work also based
on Orbit Orbit 3+1 1.8b2 MiK (Chris Neale and Michael Kunz, based on Kent Thuresson's Orbit 3.)
Taskbar, mail folderpane and threadpane, and some other icons also use some images adapted from the original Classic and Modern themes.
The default throbbers were made using artwork by Nicubunu. Thanks, Nicubunu!
Code for the menuicons subskin adapted by permission from CatThief's Mostly Crystal theme which includes code for non-language-specific support by Andr3a. (I have rather heavily modified and added to it.)
I created the current emoticon set using Nereid background styling, with features mainly from the default Kopete emoticon set.
For the emoticon set — now the old smiley subskin — I used features based mostly on the old Classic emoticons and somewhat on Chatzilla's set; I tried to use the same colours and gradient for the background which was in the
earlier emoticon set based on TwoSouls Emoticons by TwoSouls, from kde-look.org.
Many of the features in the subskins are also found in OCC, and were suggested by various members of the SeaMonkey community. Thanks for the time they've spent testing and making suggestions for improvement and new features.
Nereid is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
Nereid is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
Changelog: not all listed versions have been available for download; some are listed here for my convenience during tweaking / testing.
20060330-1: 1st release
20060402-1: fixed Go button bug (text shown in full-screen)
tweaked component bar icons
20060403-1: worked on vertical misalignment in search-button icon in pics + text mode
20060407-1: more work on search and go button misalignment, as well as issues with F11 in text-only mode. Red tab-close button subskin added.
20060423-1: Fixed newsgroup folderpane icons. Some additions to menuicons subskin.
About page now has two styles (View > Apply style > light or dark) and is valid xhtml.
20060424-1: Red tab close button subskin now uses red icon for close sidebar button.
20060429-1: Blue new-tab icon is default; also used in menuicons.
original yellow tab icon still available as subskin
fixed bug for text-plain menuicon
20060525-1, 20060525-2: Support for moztweaks extension (sidebar button icons)
20060610-1 corrected missing menuicon for "bookmark this group of tabs"
20060624-1 added menuicons for qn settings; spellbound support
20060624-2 added missing menuicon for sidebar: switch tab
20060625-1 tweaked spellbound icon
20060625-2 added new menuicon for validate html (composer)
20060626-1 tweaked menuicon for validate html (composer)
20060626-2 added missing threadpane context menuicons (messenger)
20060626-3 menuicons (in domi)
20060627-1 GPL license
new privacy-button icon (navigator)
20060627-2 comment out part in chrome://messenger/skin/messageBody.css throwing error
20060629-1 corrected anchor icon, disabled state (composer)
20060702-1 1.5a borked notice
20060709-1 updated some icons (back, forward, reload, stop (quit), go)
20060710-1 provided subskin for those who prefer the old icons
20060710-2 more menuicons (Format > Table etc missing in messenger)
20060710-3 more menuicons (Options > file copy > etc missing in messenger)
20060710-4 more menuicons (diggler extension support){release}
20060711-1 more menuicons (move, copy msg in messenger)
20060716-1 fixed DOMi urlbar padding in rnd urlbar subskins
20060718-1 testing ssl urlbar subskins
20060722-1 testing ssl urlbar styles as default; high, low, broken styles
20060723-1 testing ssl urlbar styles 3 -x1
20060724-1 ssl urlbar styles (3 -x1) default and no-ssl urlbar subskins
20060725-1 no-ssl-urlbar subskins in own directory
20060801-1 menuicon work (extension: Colorzilla)
20060816-1 fix for round urlbars in 1.1a builds
tweaked tab-close icon
20060816-2 test alternate diggler
20060816-3 test tweaked tab-new icon
20060818-1 tweaked paste icon; misc rel to aphrodite
20060824-1 tweaked config (subskin)
20060824-2 menuicons: tag (Mail)
20060825-2 menuicons: conquery (extension)
20060826-1 menuicons: tag (Mail)
tweaked message-mail-offline.png (lighter bg)(Mail)
20060830-1 tweaked sidebar tabs padding (thinner)
20060915-1 tree sort indicator test
20060916-1 default cursor toolbarbutton.bookmark-item[container="true"]
20060930-1 changing out throbbers/icons based on non-free sm logo
20061001-1 about:config looked bad; fixed
20061002-1 some work on 32px throbber
20061004-1 new 24px gnu throbbers, partial 16px, need to put in for 32
20061004-2 werk on 24px gnu throbbers
20061005-1 tweak 24 anim throbber; 16 n 32 throbbers new
20061005-2 tweak 24 single throbber
20061015-1 new throbbers
20061016-1 new rnd-tab code; rnd urlbar fix (branch); new about-sm.png
20061017-1 release
20061022-1 new html tooltip code for 1.8 branch
20061029-1 menuicons (spellcheck)
20061031-1 menuicon code for open frame in new tab; about:config
20061101-1 buttonicons subskin
20061111-1 buttonicons subskin work
20061111-2 buttonicons subskin work
20061122-1 messenger folderpane.css - add impt - unread & new
20061126-1 buttonicons subskin work: less
20061129-1 & 2 packaging for non-website distribution
20070116-1 xul filepicker; menuicons
20070119-1 config updated for 1.1
20070209-1 rnd-urlbar page-favicon margin updated for 1.1
20070209-1 menuicons updated
20070209-1 subskin: complete native urlbar look
20070211-1 menuicons updated
20070217-1 menuicons bug bkmks
20070411-1 themed about:config nag
20070413-1 smiley smile icon updated using kopete style for features
20070418-1 correct missing collapsed-attachment-button in threadpane
20070424-1 checked, not-checked images in filter dialogue (messenger)
20070429-1 tab padding (tabbox.css)
20070505-1 changes in global/toolbarbutton.css and comm/button.css along lines of bugfix in Eurynome
20070505-1 icons in download manager dialogue
20070507-1 more bughunting text-only alignment etc
20070510-1 fixed buttonImage.css so doesn't bork .button-toolbar > .button-box
20070512-1 altered buttonImage.css and glob/button.css
20070514-1 adjusted glob/button.css
20070517-1 buttons for calendar (gototoday, choosedate)
20070517-1 tweaked bookmarks/folderitem-dis.png
20070517-1 release
20070701-1 GPLv3
20070803-1 menuicons, messageHeader
20070804-1 rnd urlbar favicon
20070806-1 .menulist-compact tweaking; altering binding slightly in globalbindings; updating menu-native subskin for full native look in .menulist-compact; vl edition updated accordingly
20080222-1 subskin: menuicons work tbe
20080411.0529 new about style; misc bugfixes; new smileys; new versioning
20080422 message header scrolling bughunt
20080601 addresslist bughunt
20080606 enigmail support