OutlookAlike BETA :: Reviews :: Add-ons for Thunderbird

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by AlterEgo1973 on Oct. 15, 2014 · permalink

Although it's still a Beta extension, it's a must-have for me.

There are a few issues I'd like to mention before moving on to full release?

* the active tab seems to have a "curve" design in them, but it looks like its more like a overlay than an actual replacement of the tab. Personally I'd leave that out, and keep design to the active theme. Possibly an option in the plugin to turn them off?

*Mouse-over tabs seem to slighly change the height of the tab.

* Compatibility with themes in general: text becomes "invisible" when installing a dark theme.

Other than that: no massive problems, maybe the options to install icon packs, but I think people already mentioned this.

Keep up the good work!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by Der_Ostfriese on Sept. 7, 2014 · permalink

Leider macht dieses Theme Probleme.
Es zerschießt das ganze Aussehen von TB.
Und der Hammer, es lässt sich nicht wieder entfernen.
Im Themes-Fenster steht nur der Standard-Theme und
OutlookAlike ist nirgends aufgeführt.
Das ist Sehr schade, Kann einer weiterhelfen.

by guitar1 (Developer) on Sept. 7, 2014 · permalink

Outlookalike ist kein Theme sondern ein AddOn und ist demnach auch nicht bei den Themes aufgeführt, sondern bei den Addons, dort kann es auch wieder entfernt werden und sollte dabei wieder den Original Zustand herstellen (ggf. müssen die normalen Menüleisten wieder eingeblendet werden).

Darf ich fragen, auf welchem Betriebssystem Sie das Problem haben und welche anderen Addons Sie installiert haben? Bisher hat sich noch niemand mit einem ähnliche Problem gemeldet?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Ricardo on July 23, 2014 · permalink

The skin is absolutely gorgeous and very functional too. I wanted to congratulate you for your work and Thank you.

I have 3 suggestions to improve the skin, although it looks already awesome, if you find the time and want to implement them:
- Where you find An: you could use To: in the international version. I know what An: means, but it looks nicer with To:
- In the New message, could you include at the end the spelling menu with a nice Icon. I've tried customizing the bar by adding it manually but ultimately it always goes to the beginning of the toolbar when I start a new message and that's annoying.
- I know this is asking a lot, but can you customize the Main Pane, where you can see all messages inside a folder to have 2 lines and look a bit more like Outlook.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Tim on July 18, 2014 · permalink

The dutch language would be very usefull

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Nicolas Widmer on June 24, 2014 · permalink

Great plug-in! I am however not able to show the toolbar when I open a message in a new window.

by guitar1 (Developer) on June 24, 2014 · permalink

Unfortunately this is the "normal behavior", internally it's a different window with its own user interface and till now I did not add the outlookalike toolbar to this window. It will be added in a futur release :-) but I can't say when, because at the moment I don't have much time to spend with my addon :(

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by captainjames on April 13, 2014 · permalink

I use Windows 7 64bit Home Premium Service Pack 1.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.0.6). This user has a previous review of this add-on.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by chaos_djin on Feb. 27, 2014 · permalink

excellent extension for a profession environment, I think it would be one of the most valued and most downloaded extensions for users, but needs to be more polished, for example in the texts of new message, new event and new contact, the color of text is blank without the focus, which is lost in the background, perhaps by changing the white with some gray a little dim, turn out to be more legible, between the alignment of icons and other small details, so commented it is excellent but needs to be polished, continue with great job.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.0.6).

by guitar1 (Developer) on Feb. 27, 2014 · permalink

Thanks for your feedback :)
May I ask you which operating system you use? Till now the addon is manly optimized for Linux with KDE desktop. I discovered a lot optical differences between other operating systems, but for now (in the beta phase) functional tasks are more important. Giving it the final polish is planed for a later phase ;-) - also new icons, they are kind of terrible, but free, easy and fast to use ;)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by krish on Jan. 2, 2014 · permalink

while this does enhance the thunderbird appearance..I had to remove this as this add-on seems to be suppressing the meeting invites. Meeting Invitations link that are usually highlighted at the bottom is no longer visible after installing this add-on.