Thunderbird 3 (Shredder) and Growl Notifications
Since formatting a couple of weeks back, I thought I'd give Shredder Alpha 3 a go (Shredder is just the codename for Thunderbird 3).
As far as functionality goes, it's pretty nifty. Having tabbed inboxes is nifty, but there's no tabbed compose window, which is my only real gripe.
Anyway, I wanted Growl notifications of new messages, so I installed the Growl Notifications add-on (which has served me well in past, and is in a sense the 'official' Growl add-on).
Well, it didn't work.
I got my debug on today, and saw that it was whinging about
Long story short, Growl is now built into Thunderbird. You don't need an extension. Although, I needed to pull a nightly build to have it working. But that might have also been a conflict with the broken plugin.
I'm not big on the format (now it says "[emailaddress] has [n] new message(s)", instead of the subject/intro line that the old add-on had). I'm going to see if I can listen to an event and call it myself with my own format, but it seems the default response is hard coded in your platform's
I feel a bit unaccomplished now though - I've spent all this time figuring out what's going on, and now I've got nothing to show for it - no patch, nothing!
*finds something to work on with deliverables*
As far as functionality goes, it's pretty nifty. Having tabbed inboxes is nifty, but there's no tabbed compose window, which is my only real gripe.
Anyway, I wanted Growl notifications of new messages, so I installed the Growl Notifications add-on (which has served me well in past, and is in a sense the 'official' Growl add-on).
Well, it didn't work.
I got my debug on today, and saw that it was whinging about
grINotificationsList not being defined. I dug through a lot of code, and ventured deep into Obj-C land, which was the second time in two days (two different projects), and mighty unfamiliar. Eventually I stumbled on this Mozilla bug to try and find the XPCOM change between 1.8 and 1.9 to patch the extension.Long story short, Growl is now built into Thunderbird. You don't need an extension. Although, I needed to pull a nightly build to have it working. But that might have also been a conflict with the broken plugin.
I'm not big on the format (now it says "[emailaddress] has [n] new message(s)", instead of the subject/intro line that the old add-on had). I'm going to see if I can listen to an event and call it myself with my own format, but it seems the default response is hard coded in your platform's
FillToolTipInfo method. Hm. At the very least, you can change the (new)BiffNotification_message(s) in messenger.properties.I feel a bit unaccomplished now though - I've spent all this time figuring out what's going on, and now I've got nothing to show for it - no patch, nothing!
*finds something to work on with deliverables*