I guess because for the mainstream users of Ubuntu, it works fine (that is, you use unity and don't change any defaults in Thunderbird). And no non-mainstream user is bothered enough to get involved in Ubuntu development and submit a patch with an alternative. If someone modified the Ubuntu package, created the alternative theme and enabled it by default for Unity, and they were persistent and pro-active enough to get the patch accepted by Ubuntu, then this will be fixed.
This is not a characteristic of Ubuntu, it is how free-software works: either fix it yourself or convince someone (with nice words, arguments or money) to do it for you or be lucky and patient enough so that someone else will do it. If everybody takes the last option, then nothing changes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1004841 Title: Thunderbird Icon set is broken (ugly, black and white icons) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1004841/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
