Thunderbird-Unity Update

[Mike Conley]

All:

Over the past few weeks, I've been working with Chris Coulson, getting
his global menu extension polished up. It was recently released into
the Ubuntu repositories, and so far, no major bug reports. No news is
good news, I guess.

I've also spent the last few weeks putting together an extension to
integrate Thunderbird with the Unity Messaging Menu. Some work had
already gone into this (see:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/indicators-for-thunderb-223374/),
and I used this as inspiration for a port.

My version of the messaging menu extension is available here:
http://www.launchpad.net/messagingmenu-extension

There are still a number of issues to iron out with it, but it's
getting close. Current working features include:

- Indications on new messages in inbox
- Menu items for composing new messages and reaching address book
- Focuses Thunderbird if Thunderbird is selected from the Messaging
Menu

Just wanted to keep you all posted on our progress. Let me know if
you have any questions. All feedback welcome.

All the best,

-Mike

[David Ascher]

Great. Whenever it's ready, I think we could use the Labs site to get
some traffic on it and some testers. Maybe find a way to get it
syndicated on planet ubuntu as well?

--da

[Jorge O. Castro]

I can get eyes on this on plaent and omgubuntu as well, Mike is what
your initial mail details all the info you want put out or do you want
anything else mentioned?

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[Mike Conley]

Jorge:

Hm - maybe add that it still has some limitations. Particularly, it
doesn't yet indicate if you've received new newsgroup or RSS feed
messages.

Thanks,

-Mike

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[Chris Coulson]

On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 15:19 -0500, Mike Conley wrote:
> Jorge:
>
> Hm - maybe add that it still has some limitations. Particularly, it
> doesn't yet indicate if you've received new newsgroup or RSS feed
> messages.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Mike
>

Hi,

We can also package this and put it in a PPA too when you think it's
ready, as it's quite easy for people to participate in testing then.

Regards
Chris

[Mark Banner]

On 22/02/2011 20:09, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:48 PM, David Ascher
> <das...@mozillamessaging.com> wrote:
>> Great. Whenever it's ready, I think we could use the Labs site to get some
>> traffic on it and some testers. Maybe find a way to get it syndicated on
>> planet ubuntu as well?
> I can get eyes on this on plaent and omgubuntu as well, Mike is what
> your initial mail details all the info you want put out or do you want
> anything else mentioned?
>

We should probably have a unified feedback/bug report location. Is it
worth just doing the Mozilla Labs post first (with reference to the
available locations, i.e. AMO and anywhere else), and then copying that
out to the other places?

Mark.

[David Ascher]

On 2/23/11 7:39 AM, Mark Banner wrote:
> We should probably have a unified feedback/bug report location. Is it
> worth just doing the Mozilla Labs post first (with reference to the
> available locations, i.e. AMO and anywhere else), and then copying
> that out to the other places?

Especially if we're looking for bug reports most of all, yes. Mike,
Chris, where do you think bug reports would be best? A new Thunderbird
component (slightly odd as the code hasn't landed yet and I worry that
linux-specific bugs would get lost)? Some other bug tracker?

--da

[Chris Coulson]

For globalmenu-extension, bug reports are currently going to Launchpad
[1], although that's primarily because it was easy for me to create a
project on there and enable bug reporting for it.

Regards

Chris

[1] - https://bugs.launchpad.net/globalmenu-extension

[David Ascher]

On 2/23/11 8:34 AM, Chris Coulson wrote:
> For globalmenu-extension, bug reports are currently going to Launchpad
> [1], although that's primarily because it was easy for me to create a
> project on there and enable bug reporting for it.
>

FWIW, I'm totally fine w/ that being where bug reports go until it lands
in trunk.

--da

[Mike Conley]

The same goes for messagingmenu-extension - I'm using Launchpad, here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/messagingmenu-extension

-Mike

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