Bug#916051: ITP: birdtray -- system tray notifications for Thunderbird
On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 06:26:53PM +0100, Marek Mosiewicz wrote:
> W dniu 09.12.2018, nie o godzinie 18∶08 +0100, użytkownik Adam Borowski
> napisał:
> > * Package name : birdtray
> > * URL : https://github.com/gyunaev/birdtray
> > Description : system tray notifications for Thunderbird
> > Birdtray provides systray notifications for Thunderbird. It displays
> > the count of unread mail, hides the Thunderbird window when not in use,
> > and restores it on clicking the tray icon. It also provides a context
> > menu with commands such as starting composing a new mail.
> > .
> > It is a nasty hack -- an external process looking at Thunderbird's
> > insides, it suffers from problems like noticing new mails only after a
> > delay, having to restart Thunderbird just to hide its window, etc --
> > you'd want to use an extension like firetray instead -- but, it is
> > likely that support for Thunderbird extensions will be dropped soon,
> > possibly by the time you read these words.
> Is it not simpler and much more effective to communicate with
> Thunderbird via XPCOM ?
That's part of XUL -- if that's gone, so goes XPCOM. Both are gone from
Firefox since 57+, but have so far been retained in Thunderbird. Alas,
upstream is deliberating whether to drop or not -- with signs randomly
pointing to droppage or not. I don't know anything about Mozilla's internal
politics (I'm only blindly packaging something I need), but as I understand
it is a serious effort for the Thunderbird team to keep XUL after sabotage
done by Mozilla's quantumization -- and as undermanned as they are, it's
pretty likely they'll need to drop despite their wishes.
According to birdtray's upstream, the next best way to communicate is
accessing Mork (.msf) files.
I guess the upstream could explain more. And yeah, it's better when a
packager knows something about the stuff he's packaging so if someone with a
clue would be willing to help, it'd be deeply appreciated.
Meow!
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