*Experimental* 2003-05-21 Windows Build

[mscott]

A new experimental windows build should be showing up here shortly:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/ ... 5-21-trunk

This is the first build that uses the same toolkit as firebird. If you are trying to build this at home you also need the patch in: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206692 to build it. I haven't checked that patch in yet.

What we get with the new toolkit:
1) Many of the widgets look slightly different.
2) The prefs panel has been completely overhauled to look like Firebird.
3) A new JS console with icons from the Firebird cute theme
4) New icons in alert dialogs that match the icons used in Firebird.
5) Many people could not use thunderbird because they needed a way to configure proxy servers. You can now find pref UI for this under the advanced panel in prefs. Please let me know if it works for you.

The only downside so far is that we took a 200K hit on the the size of thunderbird =(. Negates most of the work I did 2 weeks ago. The price of progress!

I need lots of feedback on this build. I really want to hear about regressions specific to this build and NOT issues that have been around.

Things to really bang on: the new pref panels, auto complete, customizeable toolbars.

Thanks again!
-Scott

[nilson]

Thanks for the new build! I thought that the new toolkit would decrease the size of the download, but I guess not...
BTW, I asked before, but I don't guess you read it: Did you get your sig from Thunderbirds on TechTV ?

[TychoQuad]

Yay! new toolkit!

I'll give it a testrun tonight. As for the 200k size hit, that doesn't really bother me, considering that it wasn't an issue even before you did the size cropping. There's still plenty of mozilla stuff to be cut out of both Firebird (toolkit stuff) and Thunderbird though, isn't there?

any eta on the full qute Thunderbird theme yet?

[mscott]

Thanks for the new build! I thought that the new toolkit would decrease the size of the download, but I guess not...
BTW, I asked before, but I don't guess you read it: Did you get your sig from Thunderbirds on TechTV ?

I got it from the old saturday morning TV show with the puppets:

http://freespace.virgin.net/anthony.clark2/

but I see from a websearch that tech TV is airing them again like you said:

http://www.techtv.com/thunderbirds/stor ... 78,00.html

[mscott]

Yay! new toolkit!

any eta on the full qute Thunderbird theme yet?

I have zero artistic skills for themework. Arvid, the designer of the qute theme volunteered to work on the theme for Thunderbird. You'd have to ask him how that is coming along.

[amanzi]

Thanks Scott.

Can you let me (and any other newbies) know what to do with that patch - how do we install it??? I'm running Win 2000.

Stuart.

[mscott]

Thanks Scott.

Can you let me (and any other newbies) know what to do with that patch - how do we install it??? I'm running Win 2000.

Stuart.

If your a newbie, just download the build I posted. You only need the patch if you are trying to compile the source on your own. If you are building the source on your own do the following:

1) Save the patch file in your mozilla directory
2) run patch -p0 < <name of the patch file>
3) rebuild thunderbird

[amanzi]

Sorry - didn't read your post properly. I'm just going to be installing it, not building it - that's why it didn't make sense to me!

Stuart.

[edmz]

IN the options menu, when selecting fonts, the redrawing of the controls that allow to specify a font is SO slow you can watch as each control is redrawing itself. Takes about 3-4 seconds for that "tab" to draw completely.

[xnb]

The preferency handling is realy nice. The look and feel like firebird looks good.
Specialy the Advanced panel is a real advancement. Hopefully the qute-theme will be there shortly.

[sgbouwhu]

Address autocompletion doesn't work at all in this build.. not when I start typing the name, emailaddress or nickname of the person I want to mail.

The pref panels all look good, just one thing: When choosing fonts: The dropdown boxes with the fonts load quite slowly (we're talking 5 seconds or something, nothing extreme).

Customizeable toolbars all work fine for me.

Great job on this build! But I do hope the autocompletion will be fixed soon..

[mscott]

Address autocompletion doesn't work at all in this build.. not when I start typing the name, emailaddress or nickname of the person I want to mail.

The pref panels all look good, just one thing: When choosing fonts: The dropdown boxes with the fonts load quite slowly (we're talking 5 seconds or something, nothing extreme).

Customizeable toolbars all work fine for me.

Great job on this build! But I do hope the autocompletion will be fixed soon..

Thanks for testing the build out. Autocomplete is working just fine for me in this build. Is anyone else having problems with it? Do you see any errors to the JS console after you try to use autocomplete?

Can you make sure the pref under Options / advanced is enabled properly?

I'll look into the font thing. Someone else reported that to. Very strange.

[amanzi]

The autocomplete worked fine for me in the default theme - but then I changed the theme to another one and the autocomplete stopped working. Changing back to the original theme put it right.

Stuart.

[sgbouwhu]

The JS messages I get:

When starting up the mail compose window:

Code: Select all

Error: Components.classes['@mozilla.org/autocomplete/controller;1'] has no properties
Source File:
Line: 4

Error: this.mController has no properties
Source File: chrome://global/content/widgets/autocomplete.xml#autocomplete.detachController()
Line: 1


And when using autocomplete by typing a nickname and pressing <Tab> :

Code: Select all

Error: this.mController has no properties
Source File: chrome://global/content/widgets/autocomplete.xml#autocomplete.attachController()
Line: 1

Error: this.mController has no properties

Error: this.mController has no properties

Error: this.mController has no properties

Error: this.mController has no properties
Source File: chrome://global/content/widgets/autocomplete.xml#autocomplete.detachController()
Line: 1


The autocomplete worked fine for me in the default theme - but then I changed the theme to another one and the autocomplete stopped working. Changing back to the original theme put it right.

Stuart.

I completely forgot to mention that I was indeed using the Phoenity theme with Thunderbird too. I always unzip every file but the qute.jar, which I replaced, so I didn't think of it..

So your theory may still be right .

[amanzi]

Under View -> Toolbars -> Customize, I can't get the toolbars to display just the icons or just the text, it can only display icons and text.
In the options box there are no icons for each section of options.

Stuart.