Start the work on adding support for TB 78+
jeevatkm opened this issue · 16 comments
It seems TB has pushing add-on on to next level challenge - Migrating to WebExtension otherwise, it won't work.
🤔 First I have to start learning WebExtension so that I can migrate 😆
As I looking into it, turns out this is a complex task and requires a rewrite of the add-on. Not sure how much time it's going to take.
I have read so many documents and investigated a lot also reached out TB community with few questions.
- https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/addons/T6f81f0bbb7b18952/anyone-know-equivalent-of-compose-window-init-in-mailextension
- https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/addons/T5c58b355f11ff49e/how-to-apply-locales-message-in-options-ui-html
- https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/addons/Tfd56507268abcbca/gmsgcompose-editor-equivalent-in-mailextension
- https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/addons/Tfff28c989c836e21/how-to-access-tb-settings-prefs-values-in-mailextension
Need to decide the path, let's see!
Thought to mention it here for RWH users.
As it turns out, brand new RWH MailExtension development (complete rewrite is required for TB 78+) is happening on branch tb-78-mail-extension
RWH MailExtension development is in-progress.
Technically it's happening in two parts -
- One for the short term - just make it work with workarounds in TB 78
- Another one for the long term - a complete rewrite from scratch to support TB 78+ roadmap. This part is very time consuming and lots of effort involved. - No ETA
- Good thing, I will bring new features and improvements using the latest TB capabilities 😉
I appreciate your patience, thanks.
I'm hoping I will have a beta version for TB 78 in the upcoming week.
Dear RWH User -
I have prepared the RHW v2.3.0-beta for try out.
Download Link: https://bit.ly/2F0cQNg
Sha256: 882b3abca3dde68413084d9680351dcee0b44d4c64cef4184e486abd3da30b11
Can you please test and share your feedback/confirmation?
PS: This short-term goal is to make RWH work in TB 78 after that I will start work brand new RWH v3.0.0 Mail extension.
Hi Jeevatkm,
i will try RWH beta tonight (in a couple of hours - here UTC/GMT +2).
Feedback coming soon ;-)
Hey Jeeva, tks for beta version. Testing was positive. Could not see any problem in this test. Seems to work as in previous TB versions.
Thanks for the beta version. It is working, although the headers are hard to read when the dark theme is used.
@jeevatkm Thank you very much. I was waiting for this. It works fine for me with TB 78.3.1.
Works like a charm except for "Reply list": no headers remplacement.
Don't remember if it works with v2.2.1
@BackSpace54, @tidebre67, @m-i-k-e-y, @chdh - Thanks for the testing and confirmation.
@BackSpace54 - RWH add-on only supports Reply, Reply to All, and Forward.
@m-i-k-e-y - I have not learned the new TB theme concepts yet. The RWH v2.3.0 is just to make it work in TB 78. I will have to figure out the theme when working on RWH v3.0.0 Mail Extension.
I have received positive feedbacks here as well as on Disqus threads on the RWH page. I will start preparing for submitting RWH v2.3.0 to ATN.
Just now, I have submitted RWH v2.3.0 to ATN for review.
@weksupport Thanks for testing and confirmation.
RWH v2.3.0 has been released to ATN and the new development will be tracked under #103.
@jeevatkm Is it to be expected that I can't access the "RWH preferences" with the new 2.3.0 build? The add-on does work now (thank you for your efforts!), but is using the English instead of the German locale for the headers, that I'd prefer. I see that there's a commit called "... preferences page started working", but I only can access RWH's "Details" and "Permissions" in the add-on panel.
Edit: Nevermind, I've found it. It wasn't self-explanatory though, I didn't expect it to be located in an extra "Add-on settings" menu in the Misc/Extras section.