So been using thunderbird as my default mail client for a while now and I love it. Its fast and responsive. My only problem with it is that it looks very dated. Any way to make it look a bit more modern?

    Infamous711 Solus doesn't develop thunderbird. Solus team just package it.
    What you can do is to customise it and install some themes from "Menu" > "Preferences" > "Extensions & Themes", and do any customizations "Menu" > "Customize".

        algent Solus doesn't develop thunderbird. Solus team just package it.

        I know, I am just asking for suggestions for making thunderbird a bit more modern.

        algent What you can do is to customise it and install some themes from "Menu" > "Preferences" > "Extensions & Themes", and do any customizations "Menu" > "Customize".

        Oh, its totally like firefox! Thank you.

            algent install some themes

            So just want to share this, I installed a theme. Now its much much better than the default theme of thunderbird. I installed Moneterail dark 2 theme (much more sleeker and better looking in my opinion).

              Infamous711 Install Mailspring. Really though I'd love to know because I'm giving Thunderbird a go on one of my machines and it's just so ugly.

                  Brucehankins
                  I kinda wanna ignore mailspring as I need a mailspring account or something as I have heard from some other people. I will be sticking to thunderbird as this is the only mail client I have my trust on.

                      Infamous711 you don't need an account, it's just an email client though, not a PIM. On my laptop, I've chosen form over function. Mainspring is beautiful and modern.
                      I use it with personal, work, and school accounts linked up. I love the unified inbox and clean look. I sorely miss the integrated calendar, to-do list, and other functionality you get out of a true PIM like Outlook, Thunderbird, Kontact, or Evolution.

                          Brucehankins Thanks for letting me know about this. So it doesn't need an account? Then I may try it out today. Also I dont actually use the calendar and those other functions of thunderbird. I just want to an email client. Mailspring might be good I suppose.

                              Brucehankins Kontact

                              Did you try out kontact? I tried it out a month ago and it was kinda buggy and made my cpu full for no reason at all. I use kde so I would have loved kontact but its kinda not that much as stable as thunderbird.

                                  Infamous711 I haven't tried Kontact, mostly because I'm a bit OCD and werid. I try to only run Qt stuff on Plasma and GTK on Budgie. I know there's no technical reason I can't use them with a different DE, as I said I'm just weird. I want to try and keep everything with a similar aesthetic, look, feel, design language. I use the BeautyLine icons, Sweet window Decorations, and Orchis theme. The KDE apps are great, but Kmail just doesn't look as pleasing as Mailspring and they don't always respect theming or icons.

                                      Infamous711 If all you're looking for is an email client, Mailspring is awesome. One of my big gripes with email is I want a unified inbox, Mailspring delivers. I don't know if you're familiar with Spark on iOS and Android, but Mailspring is about a close as you can get on Linux. It has all the feature sets you want like scheduled emails, quiet time and auto-reply, and separates out read receipts in a nice little dashboard unlike Outlook.

                                          Brucehankins Orchis theme

                                          Oh I use the same theme.

                                          And thank you. I have tried mailspring and its really really good. I feel like I jumped 15 years in the future from using thunderbird to now mailspring. I think I will now set it as my default mail client.

                                            Brucehankins It has all the feature sets you want like scheduled emails, quiet time and auto-reply, and separates out read receipts in a nice little dashboard unlike Outlook.

                                            Yup, I am kinda loving these features.

                                              Brucehankins Mailspring is awesome

                                              I took a look at Mailspring, but it was pretty much a showstopper when I couldn't create an account for a user with a single name.

                                              In my case, the email account that I use the most is one for a user called WetGeek. No last name. (I'm a retired software engineer in a part of the US where it is said to rain all the time.) Thunderbird has never had an issue with that. And when I tried to use Wet Geek, of course that didn't work, as the mail server for my domain doesn't recognize Wet Geek as a valid user name. I couldn't try it with my gmail.com account, for the same reason.

                                              Seems like a decent mail client with some potentially useful features, but I couldn't get past the setup routine. Maybe that restriction will be removed at some later date, and I can take another look at it then.

                                                oddly both thunderbird and openoffice look way better in plasma ,almost stylish