About Nereid

Subskins
VectorLinux userfiles
To see the default VL userChrome.css and userContent.css included with SM 1.1.8, navigate to /opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.8/defaults/profile/US/chrome

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.

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.)

Alternate throbbers
In addition to the new default throbber, there are several alternate throbbers you can use.

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.

An alternate VectorLinux busy throbber is available, in which the globe changes colour:

@import url("chrome://global/skin/subskin/throbbers/vector-alt/brand.css");

To use the Nicugecko lizard throbber (the default throbber in the regular version, based on a lizard image by Nicubunu) use this subskin:

@import url("chrome://global/skin/subskin/throbbers/nicugecko/brand.css");

Globe with GNU head, based on GNUzilla's GNU logo:

@import url("chrome://global/skin/subskin/throbbers/gnu-z/brand.css");

Native look: menus & urlbar (GNU/Linux only: unnecessary in GNU/Linux edition)
Menus and menuitems take on the native gtk appearance

@import url("chrome://global/skin/subskin/menu-native.css");

completely native urlbar

@import url("chrome://global/skin/subskin/urlbar-native.css");

userChrome.css tweaks

native-look dropmarker in message compose addressing widget (this may not always work, especially in Windows)

.menulist-compact > .menulist-label-box > .menulist-icon {
-moz-appearance: menulist-button !important;
}

change text style in tabs: make the text on all tabs, including unread, normal

#content tab {
font-style: normal !important;
}

change text style in tabs: make selected tab text bold

tab[selected="true"] {
font-weight: bold !important;
}

correct visual bug in page-proxy-favicon when using geramik, thingeramik gtk2 style

#page-proxy-deck {
margin: 4px 1px 3px 3px !important;
}

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.

#component-bar > .taskbutton {
display: none;
}

#component-bar:hover > .taskbutton {
display: -moz-box;
}

If you like, you can show only the mail (or other) button normally, and show the others on hover:

#component-bar > .taskbutton {
   display: none;
}

#component-bar > #mini-mail {
   display: -moz-box;
}

#component-bar:hover > .taskbutton {
   display: -moz-box;
}

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:

statusbar > #component-bar {
display: none;
}

statusbar:hover > #component-bar {
display: -moz-box;
}

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:

#messengerWindow > statusbar > #component-bar {
display: -moz-box;
}

And you can specify the navigator's statusbar with the following:

#main-window > statusbar > #component-bar

The Dom Inspector will quickly give you information about other component windows.

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FAQs

What's userChrome.css and how do I use it?

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?

That's an old style that was used several years ago ... green is default, blue is user set, and red is locked. More on locking Mozilla preferences can be found here: http://www.alain.knaff.lu/howto/MozillaCustomization/locked.html

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.

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Bugs

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. But the easiest way is to simply press F11 (full screen) twice (may not always work). (Thanks to Laurence for that tip.)
In initially developing Nereid and OCC, I encountered this and spent some time seeking a solution, in vain; therefore, I've marked it as "won't fix." > ;7)~~ However, if someone finds a solution which doesn't change the appearance of the icons, they're welcome to submit it. It could be that the solution just requires a fresh perspective.

The trunk is undergoing numerous changes which may break this and other themes. Thus, it may not work with some 1.5a nightly builds. 1.5a nightlies are not supported.

I only develop and test in GNU/Linux (Debian, VectorLinux) 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 OS-specific bugs problematic. When reporting a bug, make sure you mention any subskins you're using, as well as the version of SeaMonkey; also, make sure you have 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:

(Gecko:13830): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable: assertion `gdk_window_is_viewable (src)' failed
(Gecko:13830): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_n_channels: assertion `pixbuf != NULL' failed
(Gecko:13830): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_bits_per_sample: assertion `pixbuf != NULL' failed
(Gecko:13830): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_width: assertion `pixbuf != NULL' failed
(Gecko:13830): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_height: assertion `pixbuf!= NULL' failed
(Gecko:13830): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_rowstride: assertion `pixbuf != NULL' failed
(Gecko:13830): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

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 OCC, 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:

scrollbar,
scrollcorner,
thumb,
scrollbarbutton {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}

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.

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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.

Code for the menuicons subskin adapted from CatThief's Mostly Crystal themes' subskin, used with her kind permission.

Throbbers based on the submission for the current SeaMonkey artwork, as well as on the current throbbers. Lizard throbbers made using artwork by Nicubunu. Thanks, Nicubunu!

New emoticon set created by me, 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.

Image editing done with the GIMP (and a bit with Inkscape) on VectorLinux and Debian GNU/Linux.

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 SeaMonkey Theme is
   Copyright (C) 2006 inconnu aka incognu

    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.

A plain text copy of the GPL is included: chrome://global/skin/COPYING

As a matter of courtesy only, I ask that you not re-release your version of Nereid as my Nereid SeaMonkey theme, as long as I am continuing to provide updates for it and maintain compatibility with the current release of SeaMonkey. One obvious reason for this is that, by downloading Nereid from my site, users can be sure they are getting the most current version of my theme. Should I not continue to maintain this theme, please feel free to maintain it yourself, and distribute your updated versions.
In any event, this request should not be construed as limiting your rights under the GPL, or altering in any way the terms under which this theme is released.
You are free to use this theme as a basis for your own, or to modify and port it to other applications. However, if you do so, you must keep and observe the GPL license! Moreover, you should keep the appropriate credits, where applicable, in the license blocks intact.

To learn more about the GPL and Free software, please visit the Free Software Foundation and GNU.

(This theme is for SeaMonkey only, not for Mozilla Suite 1.7.x or earlier. Developed using SeaMonkey 1.0 and 1.1a. Because of changes on the trunk, it is no longer compatible with 1.5a nightlies/trunk builds. No attempt is made to support 1.5a nightly builds. However, some userChrome hacks may allow you to use it on those builds. Consult Mozillazine forums for possible work-arounds.)
1.5a nightly builds are not supported.

See FAQs.

Changelog VectorLinux edition:
    200704: work on VL edition: native appearance; VL throbbers

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

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