Start the work on adding support for TB 78+

[jeevatkm]

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 😆

[jeevatkm]

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.

[jeevatkm]

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!

[jeevatkm]

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

[jeevatkm]

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.

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I'm hoping I will have a beta version for TB 78 in the upcoming week.

[jeevatkm]

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.

[BackSpace54]

Hi Jeevatkm,
i will try RWH beta tonight (in a couple of hours - here UTC/GMT +2).
Feedback coming soon ;-)

[tidebre67]

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.

[m-i-k-e-y]

@jeevatkm

Thanks for the beta version. It is working, although the headers are hard to read when the dark theme is used.

[chdh]

@jeevatkm Thank you very much. I was waiting for this. It works fine for me with TB 78.3.1.

[BackSpace54]

Works like a charm except for "Reply list": no headers remplacement.
Don't remember if it works with v2.2.1

[jeevatkm]

@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.

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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.

[jeevatkm]

Just now, I have submitted RWH v2.3.0 to ATN for review.

[weksupport]

Thank you very much ! On this moment, no problems and it looks good ! Regards, Werner

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[jeevatkm]

@weksupport Thanks for testing and confirmation.

[jeevatkm]

RWH v2.3.0 has been released to ATN and the new development will be tracked under #103.

[spodermenpls]

@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.