Custom eM Client Themes

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You need to find the folder where eM Client stores custom themes and delete the file for the specific theme. On my Windows 7 comp the custom themes are in:

C:\Users(your login name)\AppData\Roaming\eM Client\Themes\

If you are running something other than Win 7, I cannot give directions, but I’m sure someone on this forum can help you.

If you delete the theme file from the folder, that theme will no longer appear as a choice in the eM Client settings.

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exactly like this.

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Dark Frost is gggrrrrrrrrreattt

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Thanks for supplying the solution!

Jeff

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Is there anywhere I can find a visual tutorial for editing/creating eM Client themes? I mean something that labels the various parts of eM Client with their corresponding xml tags from the theme file, so I know for sure what I’m actually changing.

Also, is there an xml editor that does things like show you the actual color for the html color code when you click on it? At the moment, I’m using XML Notepad 2007, because it’s made for Windows and easy to find. Any recommendations are welcome.

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Hi,
unfortunately there’s no official guide to xml theme editing, maybe other users have something of their own. If you want you could try using PSPad, but I’m not completely sure if it
fits your criteria.

Thank you for understanding,
Paul.

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I wish! I did everything in Notepad.  :-/  Good luck!

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@ajvincelli: If you used Notepad, you must have gotten to know the code very well. I forgot the tag that defines the color of the horizontal splitter lines in the right sidebar. I found it somewhere before, but I can’t remember where. Do you know what it is?

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It would be a ‘nice to have’ if someone from EMclient took a screenshot of EMclient, and annotated every UI element with the corresponding XML values. It doesn’t have to be anything elaborate. 

Right now customizing the theme is a brutal endeavor… 

  • No Master Template XML with all possible UI elements
  • Comments in XML are nice, but still too vague to accurately identify UI element
  • Some XML values don’t seem to change anything in UI… (deprecated?)

Thanks!

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I agree, but a guide might be too much to ask for, I would be happy with just an annotated image of the emClient UI with all the possible XML values listed in the corresponding areas. 

I like emClient, but …ugh… flat design fads are so August of 2013… ; )

@ajvincelli: OMG! I can’t imagine doing this without syntax highlighting. You should try something like notepad++ 

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I made a Dark Modern Theme. Download the newest version from GitHub: https://github.com/DeDu/Dark-Modern-Em-Client-Theme

Hope you like it :wink:

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Hallo, I like this Design!

And like to test it but ther ́s a error Message:
“DTD ist in diesem XML-Dokument aus Sicherheitsgründen unzulässig.
Zum Aktivieren der DTD-Verarbeitung müssen Sie die ‘ProhibitDtd’-Eigenschaft für
‘XmlReaderSettings’ auf ‘false’ festlegen und die Einstellungen an die
‘XmlReader.Create’-Methode übergeben.”

What can I do?

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Thanks for this. You saved the rods & cones in my eyes a good ten years. Theme looks great.

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One of our users has created another great Dark Theme, you can download the theme here: https://www.mediafire.com/?b3v8b3jb3ztdnat

Best regards,
Paul

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rather dark theme in eM Client colours: DarkBook-eM

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s5j2nijbbbxcpa2/DarkBook-eM.emtheme?dl=0


not completely finished yet, but I don’t know when I will have time again… :wink:

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I really REALLY like this!! Thank you so much.

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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled New rather dark theme in eM Client colours: DarkBook-eM.

Hi!

As I was unhappy with the themes I found, I did begin changing the one that had the most potential for me (thanks for Dark Frost!).

Its not perfect, but very usable for me. Check it out, perhaps somebody else likes it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s5j2nijbbbxcpa2/DarkBook-eM.emtheme?dl=0

And I am open for hints and tips, there are some things I did not find:

  • the colour of srcollbars
  • the colour of the border of the settings window
  • the text colour in the contacts data sheet list (which I hardly use…)
    DarkBook-eM

Best regards
Daniel

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This is a great theme. The first I’ve downloaded that has a consistent coordinated set of colours. I’m not wild about the brown palette, but it’s really well put together. I’d like to try and adapt this to grey, but it may take some time.

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I just built a bunch more themes! https://forum.emclient.com/emclient/topics/16-brand-new-free-custom-themes-for-em-client-by-everplex…

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Thank you for sharing these themes with us, we appreciate your work.

Regards,