Not so new addon to compact header pane in Thunderbird

[sterndata]

Version 0.8.3 produces a blank gray panel on this build of tbird

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090922 Fedora/3.0-2.7.b4.fc11

[jmozmoz]

Version 0.8.3 produces a blank gray panel on this build of tbird

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090922 Fedora/3.0-2.7.b4.fc11

I guess this is related to the major rework going on in the header pane. Also using Windows this version (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090930 Shredder/3.0pre ID:20090930031731) does not work anymore with the add-on. I will work on it.

(Beta 4 of Thunderbird should work for all operating systems with CompactHeader)

[jmozmoz]

Making the addon compatible with Display Mail User Agent extension isn't on your ToDo list anymore?

There ares still some glitches, selecting a 2 line view in your addon, makes that Display Mail User Agent doesn't show an icon.

At the moment this add-on doesn't work with Thunderbird (>= beta 4) anyway. I sent an email to the author of that add-on and will see what happens.

[_JohnB_]

I'm a newcomer to this extension, and I can confirm the breakage on Windows with the 20090930 build.

I'm still quite surprised they removed the ability to shrink the header pane, and don't seem to be planning to fix it by Thunderbird 3 release - so thank you very much for your efforts on this extension.

How about a "Give Us Back Our Initial Caps In Header Panes" extension!?

[zamula]

Any updates on your progress with getting this to work with the latest nightly builds? I miss my compact header!

[jmozmoz]

Try the new version 0.9.0.

Any updates on your progress with getting this to work with the latest nightly builds? I miss my compact header!

[zamula]

Wonderful to get the one line header back -- thanks again for all of your great work!

I do have a question though -- in the version notes on the first page it states you can change buttons using right-click. However, I only see the standard options recently implemented (icons, text, etc.), and the options and tag icons are missing. Not a big deal...but let me know if it's a known issue or I'm just blind.

[jmozmoz]

I do have a question though -- in the version notes on the first page it states you can change buttons using right-click. However, I only see the standard options recently implemented (icons, text, etc.), and the options and tag icons are missing. Not a big deal...but let me know if it's a known issue or I'm just blind.

You are not blind To get the customization option in the context menu you need to apply the patch from this bug to the sources of Thunderbird and recompile it. Or just wait, until it gets added to the nightly builds.

[zamula]

Ah, now I see!

[Ezh]

Is there some "Whatäs new"?

[CharlesCS]

To the Powers That Be:

Eudora 8.0b7 is (in effect) a skin for Thunderbird, with the Penelope 0.5a4 extension pre-integrated. Like the recent Thunderbird builds, it suffers from the inability to shrink its header pane; unlike Thunderbird, it's not possible to install the CompactHeader extension, because "it is not compatible with Eudora 3.0b3" (to quote the dialog box).

I am a complete tyro at .xpi creation, but I would guess that the <em:targetApplication> XML stanza in install.rdf is the blocker here.

Has anyone a recommendation for overriding this, such that I can benefit from outstanding piece of work? Thank you.

[neandr]

@CharlesCS
You are on the right way.

The following block is part of the install.rdf and you have to add such a block for Eudora

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      <em:targetApplication>
         <RDF:Description>
            <em:id>{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}</em:id>
            <em:minVersion>3.0b4</em:minVersion>
            <em:maxVersion>3.0pre</em:maxVersion>
          </RDF:Description>
      </em:targetApplication>

For the install.rdf modification: unpack the XPI file with eg. WINZIP (that works!!, others may have problems), edit the install.rdf and restore it to the XPI. Reload the modified XPI to Eudora.

Hope Eudora is like TB3.0**, if not it will fail.
Good luck.
Günter

[CharlesCS]

@neandr

Thank you, now all I need to do is figure out the <em:id> value for Eudora and I'm set...

[neandr]

@CharlesCS

Interesting situation. Just googled for the Eudora GUID and came along to an extension 'Penelope'. That one seems to me the code name for the Thunderbird implementation of Eudora.
Maybe I'm wrong, but AFAIC see Eudora isn't TB3 already, for sure not TB3.0b4 or higher.

CompactHeader is written for TB3.0b4 or higher!

Furthermore with the penelope-0.1a16.xpi / install.rdf I see the GUID (<id>) is the same as for Thunderbird, so no modification for the CompactHeader install.rdf would be required.

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<?xml version="1.0"?>

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#">
  <rdf:Description rdf:about="urn:mozilla:install-manifest">
    <id>{D1D37B8A-4F3C-11DB-8373-B622A1EF5492}</id>
    <name>penelope</name>
    <version>0.1a16</version>
    <creator>QUALCOMM incorporated</creator>
    <developer>Mark Charlebois</developer>
    <homepageURL>http://www.mozilla.org/penelope/</homepageURL>
    <description>Penelope Mail/News extension</description>
    <targetApplication>
      <rdf:Description>
        <id>{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}</id>
        <minVersion>2.0b2</minVersion>
        <maxVersion>3.0a1</maxVersion>
      </rdf:Description>
    </targetApplication>
  </rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>

[CharlesCS]

Hrmph. According to the Eudora release notes...

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------------------
CHANGES IN 8.0.0b7
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Includes Penelope version 0.5a4.
Based on Thunderbird 3.0b3, which you can find release notes here:
<http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.0b3/releasenotes/>

And there's no telling when the Eudora project will upgrade their own build to incorporate the latest TB beta, so I guess I'm stuck with this massive useless header pane.