Tool for minimizing Thunderbird to the system tray

dfx · Post by **dfx** » October 5th, 2003, 2:29 pm

Thundertray has just been updated to version 0.7.5. A couple of minor reported bugs and feature requests have been incorporated in this version.

http://www.protonfx.com/download/thundertray07.zip

( note: points to version 0.7.5, version 0.7.1 is now at http://www.protonfx.com/download/thundertray071.zip )

Old Bozz · Post by **Old Bozz** » October 5th, 2003, 4:14 pm

Great work. However, has anyone tried this little freeware. It works great with everything I'm using. Please don't take offense, but it really isn't necessary to write an extension specifically for TB when this will work across the board. At least for me.

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bijugc · Post by **bijugc** » October 5th, 2003, 6:06 pm

dfx wrote:
bijugc wrote:dfx,
Cool site !!! http://www.protonfx.com/ I realy like the "Powered by Notepad" stamp on right top.
But I did not see any source code. Why not contribute your code to Mozilla.org

Thundertray is currently not featured on the protonfx site, it is merely hosted there. Thundertray is currently freeware, not open-source thus the source code has not been contributed to Mozilla.org.

Why not make it open-source.

.

maartenc · Post by **maartenc** » October 6th, 2003, 12:17 am

I'm having troubles using thundertray.

I installed thundertray last week and everything worked fine. But today it isn't working anymore after running some windows updates (I don't know if this is the cause because I didn't try thundertray today before running the updates).

After starting thundertray, double clicking the thundertray icon starts thunderbird. But if I minimize thunderbird it isn't minimized to the system tray. It's just minimized to the taskbar. Also, thundertray seems to think that thunderbird isn't started because it's tooltip still says it is 'inactive'.

I'm using
- Windows XP pro
- Thunderbird 0.3 (20030924)
- Thundertray 0.7.5

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Maarten Coene

nrg · Post by **nrg** » October 6th, 2003, 4:26 am

Would it be possible to add a "Compose" option to the tray icon?
This way i don't have to open thunderbird to write a new email.

nrg.

mbeltran · Post by **mbeltran** » October 6th, 2003, 9:59 am

Excelent extension!!! Good work!
I really love it....

dfx · Post by **dfx** » October 6th, 2003, 11:12 am

nrg wrote:Would it be possible to add a "Compose" option to the tray icon?

Yeah, that one is on my personal wishlist too. Don't be too surprised if it pops up in a future release.

dfx · Post by **dfx** » October 6th, 2003, 11:13 am

maartenc wrote:I'm having troubles using thundertray.

I changed some stuff in 0.7.5 which may make it stop working right (though it isn't suppose to do that of course). Can you confirm that v0.7.1 does work correctly on your system?

dfx · Post by **dfx** » October 6th, 2003, 11:19 am

bijugc wrote:Why not make it open-source.

It may become open source some day, but I currently cannot release the code as is because I use various routines of some of other (non-open source) applications. In order to release the full source I would need to replace these routines and I currently have too little time to do so.

kame_sense · Post by **kame_sense** » October 8th, 2003, 11:24 am

Parameter -launchhide has no effect with v7.1 nor with v7.5

I'm running Windows 2K Pro SP4 (French) and ThunderBird 0.2 (20030901)

Keep up the good work

gdeka · Post by **gdeka** » October 9th, 2003, 4:08 am

does not work for me - will start thunderbird but will not min to tray and when i right click the only options are start thundbird and exit thundertray
any ideas why

thunderbird 2.0
Win XP

Nevyn · Post by **Nevyn** » October 10th, 2003, 12:00 pm

kame_sense wrote:Parameter -launchhide has no effect with v7.1 nor with v7.5

I'm running Windows 2K Pro SP4 (French) and ThunderBird 0.2 (20030901)

Keep up the good work

WFM Win2000 Pro SP4 and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 (20031008) and Thundetray v0.75

Steve

gbrandl · Post by **gbrandl** » October 11th, 2003, 7:28 am

gdeka wrote:does not work for me - will start thunderbird but will not min to tray and when i right click the only options are start thundbird and exit thundertray
any ideas why

thunderbird 2.0
Win XP

same here... I tried TT 0.7.1 and 0.7.5

Help is appreciated!

dfx · Post by **dfx** » October 13th, 2003, 4:32 pm

Try the new version 0.7.6 - I've fixed some pretty significant stuff in that version, maybe it will solve the minimize problem too.

http://www.protonfx.com/download/thundertray07.zip

gbrandl · Post by **gbrandl** » October 14th, 2003, 1:27 am

Sorry, it is not much better now.

I can start TT, launch TB (it is hidden by then). The context menu remains Start TB/Exit TT.
A double-click on the icon shows TB, but minimizing does not hide the window in the taskbar.
Sometimes, when I click the taskbar entry twice or mor times rapidly, the window disappears.
But I can't get it up again, double-clicking the tray icon does not help.

(WinXP SP1, TB 0.2)

Georg

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