README

The Grand Nagus commands your inbox.

A dark, opulent Roundcube webmail skin dripping with gold, amber, and bronze. Inspired by the Ferengi obsession with profit and the Rules of Acquisition.

Features

Gold/amber/bronze palette — dark warm backgrounds with rich gold accents
Opulent pill-shaped buttons — rounded, uppercase, with gold gradient shimmer
Gold trim headers/footers — warm glow border effects
Gold shimmer animation — subtle CSS @keyframes sweep on primary buttons
Gold glow on focus — inputs get warm amber box-shadow
Luxurious login page — radial gold gradient background, glowing logo
Parchment email content — warm readable background for HTML emails
Dark mode support — even deeper black variant
Mobile optimized — animations disabled, simplified shapes for performance
Custom logo — stylized latinum coin emblem

Color Palette

Role	Value	Description
Primary accent	`#d4a017`	Rich gold
Base black	`#0f0c08`	Near-black warm
Body text	`#d8ccb0`	Warm cream/parchment
Secondary text	`#8a7a5a`	Muted gold
Link color	`#e8b820`	Bright gold
Backgrounds	`#120f0a`-`#1a1610`	Dark bronze surfaces
Borders	`#2a2218`-`#3a3020`	Dark bronze
Error	`#cc2200`	Red alert
Warning	`#ff8c00`	Deep orange

Installation

Option A: Symlink (development)

ln -s /path/to/Nagus /path/to/roundcubemail/skins/Nagus

Option B: Copy

cp -r Nagus/ /path/to/roundcubemail/skins/Nagus

Activate

In your Roundcube config/config.inc.php:

$config['skin'] = 'Nagus';

Building from source

If you modify the LESS files, recompile:

npm init -y
npm install less less-plugin-clean-css
npx lessc --clean-css="--s1 --advanced" styles/styles.less styles/styles.min.css
npx lessc --clean-css="--s1 --advanced" styles/print.less styles/print.min.css
npx lessc --clean-css="--s1 --advanced" styles/embed.less styles/embed.min.css
rm -rf node_modules package.json package-lock.json

Customization

Skin color palette changes and other CSS modifications can be done via styles/_styles.less and styles/colors.less.

Based on

The Elastic skin by The Roundcube Dev Team, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.

License

The contents of this folder are subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. It is allowed to copy, distribute, transmit and to adapt the work by keeping credits to the original authors in the README.md file. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details.

This folder also contains code licensed separately:

Bootstrap Framework 4 from https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap
FontAwesome 5 fonts from https://fontawesome.com/

cherubimro / roundcube-nagus-theme

Maintainers

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