jeevatkm/ReplyWithHeaderMozilla

[solved] language / region customizations

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Masala-ms commented

Hi and thank you so much for this add-on, which seems to be the last (non-commoercial) one available that easily lets you adjust the reply header including the subject and works with TB 60.
Disclaimer: I'm not a developer and completely inexperienced with tb add-ons.

There's 2 things I'd like to adjust: First, exchange the word in the variables "From: ", "To: ", "Date: " and "Subject: ". Second, change the date format to something else (DD.MM.YYYY hh:mm [24h]).

I found other requests like this in the add-on comment section where you answered that you don't know if you'll find time for this, so I tried myself:

For the I did find the text identifiers in the core.js within the .xpi file, so I thought this would be an easy task, but I was unable to find the core.js anywhere else but in the .xpi file - there seems to be no RWH plugin folder in the tbird folder (%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default). Where do I have to look? (Win10, roaming user profile in an organization).

For the date, I found different places where the format is being defined and I'm unsere where I have to change what.

I would appreciate any support with this!

jeevatkm commented

@Masala-ms Thank you for your appreciation. This is my personal project, I intended to keep it opensource.

As of today, RWH v2.1.0 works with TB 60.* and I have started studying the TB 68.0 updates for RWH #88. It seems lot of effort is needed to support TB 68.0.

Previous I used to support a lot of customized required on header attribution and customization (header order, different date formats, etc.). People have plenty of personal taste. I ended up hard to support with my limited availability. That's why I have decided to stick to enhancing TB existing format and adding outlook format.

I would like to keep RWH add-on always active and does a good job supported feature set.

Feel free customize the RWH add-on for your need. Development effort is not straight forward with TB. Repeated following these steps "modify code, build, install, test and uninstall" to development.

Very simple TB development steps:

  • Clone the RWH repo into your machine
  • Use Editor like VS Code or Atom
  • Make changes to the code files
  • Packing -
    • *nix OS
      • go to RWH source code directory and runzip -r ../replywithheader@myjeeva.com-beta.xpi * -x ".*"
      • you will find the XPI file parent directory fo RWH source code
    • Windows
      • go to the parent directory of RWH source code directory - Right-click and Compressed the RWH source code directory
      • Rename the zip file into replywithheader@myjeeva.com-beta.xpi including file extension
  • Install
    • Go to TB and click the menu "Tools" -> "Add-on" -> click on "gear icon" -> choose "Install Add-on From File..." -> select the xpi from your hard drive
  • Test your changes
  • Uninstall the addon from add-on manager

Repeat the above steps until satisfied with your changes.

Also, having a TB error console opened during development is helpful, open TB Error Console window by pressing:

  • on macOS Shift + Command + J
  • on Windows/Linux Shift + Ctrl + J
Masala-ms commented

Thanks for your reply!
Actually, the (very, very simple) solution for my issue was to switch the language in RWH ;-) I just hadn't put any attention to that setting before.
Thanks again and I hope, you'll have time to support TB 68+ soon.