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*[http://buddhatron.wordpress.com/ Blog]
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- 0.2 Release submitted - 11/20/09
 
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= Releases =  
 
= Releases =  
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! Release ver !! Implementations !! Contributors !! Feedback !! Additional Links
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! 0.1 ||
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* Cheap use of F11 to open/close fullscreen window
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* Next/prev message navigation (Left & Right)
  
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* Redundant label on status bar for display purpose only
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* Fullscreen can also be executed from Tools drop down menu
  
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* F11 pseudo-toggle (handles F11 being pressed from messenger.xul & messageWindow.xul separately)
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* Next/prev message navigation (Left & Right)
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* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Thunderbird Tbird Extensions]
  
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* Redundant label on status bar for display purpose only
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* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Thunderbird/Building_a_Thunderbird_extension Building a Tb Ext]
  
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* [http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/ Mozilla Cross Reference]
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* Content window stripped of more obsolete UI
 
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Lousy toggling causes problems
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* [https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Chrome_Registration#Example_Chrome_Manifest Chrome Manifest]
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* Major cleanup of JS code
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* Toggle does real toggling
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* Icons added to nav. buttons
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* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/NsIMsgDBView Mail database]
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= Screenshots =
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v0.3
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[[Image:MsgFsner_extension_screenshot.jpg|thumb|widthpx| ]]
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Full screen window with navigation UI

Revision as of 17:59, 16 December 2009

Project Name

Thunderbird || Content-Only Fullscreen option

Project Description

Providing fullscreen functionality similar to Firefox's F11 hotkey to Thunderbird's email content pane whilst retaining keyboard and GUI shortcuts to navigation across the account (next/prev message, delete, inbox>sent>trash navigation).

My bug <3

Project Leader(s)

Nadim Michaty / Buddhatron

Project Contributor(s)

  • The internet diety

Project Details

The purpose of this project is to toggle stretching the focus of the content of your messages to the full screen view and hiding the UI and toolbars, while still retaining purposeful navigation functionality. This option will require seamless harmony between plain text, RSS feeds, newsgroup messages, and any of them with web-like content (HTML, inline binaries) as well as scrolling.

UI Preserved

  • Subject, From, Sender, Reply-To, To, Date
  • Next & Previous message (with subject displayed)
  • Junk
  • Delete

Additional Ideas

  • New Message alert
  • Junk excluded from next/prev navigation
  • Mark As Junk on next/prev buttons, replacing it with next non-junk email

Technologies Used

  • Javascript
  • XUL/XML
  • CSS

Tools Used

  • mIRC

Project News

- Aim of development changed from source code work to creating an extension - 10/13/09

- 0.1 Release submitted - 11/15/09

- 0.2 Release submitted - 11/20/09

- 0.3 Release submitted - 12/16/09

Releases

Release ver Implementations Contributors Feedback Additional Links
0.1
  • Cheap use of F11 to open/close fullscreen window
  • Next/prev message navigation (Left & Right)
  • Redundant label on status bar for display purpose only
  • Fullscreen can also be executed from Tools drop down menu
 N/A Too much UI left
0.2
  • Content window stripped of more obsolete UI
  • Next/prev buttons added
  • Meaningless label on status bar removed
 N/A Much better

Lousy toggling causes problems

0.3
  • Major cleanup of JS code
  • Toggle does real toggling
  • A message must be selected to go full screen
  • Icons added to nav. buttons
 N/A N/A

Screenshots

v0.3

MsgFsner extension screenshot.jpg

Full screen window with navigation UI

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