Change Lotus Notes v8.5 unread email to red
Posted on February 14th, 2009 in email
A quick guide for changing the colour of your unread email messages in LN 8.5 from black to red.
- Stop Lotus Notes client
- Navigate to /notes/framework/shared/plugins in the file system
- Find the file com.ibm.notes.branding_8.5.0.20081211-1925.jar
- Open the file in winzip or winrar
- You are then presented with the following file structure:
..
com
Icons
META-INF
src
themes
about.html
about.ini
about.properties
notes_plugin_customization.ini
plugin.properties
plugin.xml
splash.bmp
- Click on Themes directory
- Open notes.css in your favorite editing tool e.g. notepad
/* this sets the style for messages that have been marked as “unread” */
mailtable>row>unread {
color: black;
font-family: Tahoma, Times, Helvetica;
font-size: x-small;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bold;
}
- Modify the colour to say Red as shown below;
/* this sets the style for messages that have been marked as “unread” */
mailtable>row>unread {
color: red;
font-family: Tahoma, Times, Helvetica;
font-size: x-small;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bold;
}
- You will be prompted with “File “notes.css” was modified. Do you wish to update it in the archive?
- Click on YES
- The archive is updated.
- Restart notes and the text colour for unread email is still black!
- Within the Lotus Notes v8.5 client do File – Preferences – Windows and Themes
- Change the theme to a theme you are not using
- Click on Apply and OK.
- Then change the theme back to the original theme which in my case is Notes 8 Theme and all the unread email text is now red.
