I personally like the look of the MAC, but I prefer to use a PC. I use StyleXP to get the look of a MAC, and I also use Y'z Dock to complete the look, and also for usefulness. But If Firefox could be more MAC like, I'd love it. Sorry to say that I would no help for this cause. Wish I could though...

-AdamStac

What would be immensely useful to this process is a theme template with clear instructions making it easy to create a basic theme:

in the CSS: "this is where you style the FOO widget; here are some basic rules for color and shape"

in the -moz-image-region graphics image: borders outlining icon graphics and big text saying "put the icon for the BAR widget here"

More complex themes will require more sophisticated modifications, of course (like changing the sizes of the graphics), but I think the largest hurdle for people is understanding the basic structure of a theme. Once they get that down, and if they have a working base to start from, additional layers of complexity and sophistication should be a much more gradual learning curve and one conducive to development through experimentation.

I make a lot of free forum templates, and have sort of thought about trying to make a firefox theme too if i can find the time.

What sort of skills do you need for it? Any tutorials/guides out there?

From what i've seen with phpbb and ipb most downloads tend to go to things that are big on flashy graphics.

Space/science fiction is often a popular theme. Also anime and fantasy. Sports don't tend to do as well as you might think. Well enough though.

I agree that there needs to be more documentation on how to make themes... it seems that most themes just change the icons and colors of the browser, I am sure taht you can do much more complicated and cooler things like have an image be the background for the toolbars and stuff like that. The only problem is that there isn't documentation for it...

Anyway, I think that the whole "theme for a sports team" / "theme for a university" / etc. idea is very good - however we should really not just release those as themes, but as separate builds with these default themes (people don't need to change them) and also with things like different homepages (if we are releasing a theme for a sports team, make it the sports team's website, for example), and different branding in terms of things like say "Buffalo Bills browser powered by Mozilla Firefox". We could do partnerships with different groups to release "special editions" of Fx that are made for those people, they could publicize it on their website too - "Download the Buffalo Bills browser".

Jason

University, celebrities or athletic team themes aren't cool for me, I prefer clean usable simply theme. Some minimalistic (non taking too much space, but graphically polished) would be great.

Maybe it's a good idea to get someone to try to make a theme for FF now, so that we can see if it is as broken as our l10n story is.

But then again, shouldn't we have our visual identity policy ironed out and published, along with the "what can you call your build" and all that? I bet the story is allmost done, but I can't find the results with a search.

Oh, and I see someone begging for a Bauhaus-theme ;-).

I poseted earlier about the "MAC-Like" theme, but I also want to add that the newest version of FF had the best theme of them all. I have looked at the other themes avaiable, and I prefer the FF default over all of them, so good job on that.

-AdamStac

I second Adam Hauner's thoughts on prefering a clean usable simple theme.

Axel, there are dozens of themes for Firefox. See http://members.shaw.ca/lucx/ for an example. Theme switching still has some bugs, not unlike SeaMonkey, but the theming itself seems to be a considerably easier task with Firefox than SeaMonkey.

--Asa

Blake: "What trademark permissions should the Foundation pursue?"

"Netscape"?

I actually have a similar, rebranded Mozilla 1.7 browser for my high school complex. I'm pushing our high school's principal to adopt it but I haven't had much success yet.

I agree with Greg, it certainly couldn't hurt to have a Netscape-branded Firefox ;)

What about a Google branded Firefox? I think it would be very useful for the proliferation of Gecko to convince Google to distribute their own _browser_, instead of just focusing on a Google bar for IE.