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= Project Name =
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http://youtu.be/ROwH8ZEST1U
 
 
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).
 
 
 
[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499516 My bug <3]
 
 
 
= Project Leader(s) =
 
 
 
[[User:Buddhatron|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
 
 
 
*[http://buddhatron.wordpress.com/ Blog]
 
 
 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/ mxr]
 
 
 
= 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 =
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
 
! 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  || 
 
 
 
* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Thunderbird Tbird Extensions]
 
 
 
* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Thunderbird/Building_a_Thunderbird_extension Building a Tb Ext]
 
 
 
* [http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/ Mozilla Cross Reference]
 
 
 
* [http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/edit Editing Configuration Files]
 
|-
 
! 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
 
 
 
||
 
* [https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Chrome_Registration#Example_Chrome_Manifest Chrome Manifest]
 
 
 
* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Tutorial/Overlays Overlays]
 
 
 
* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Tutorial/Keyboard_Shortcuts Keyboard Shortcuts]
 
 
 
* [http://mozilla-firefox-extension-dev.blogspot.com/2005/01/showing-javascript-errors-in-chrome.html Showing JS Errors in Chrome]
 
|-
 
! 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 ||
 
 
 
* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/NsIMsgDBView Mail database]
 
 
 
* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Working_with_windows_in_chrome_code Working with windows]
 
|}
 
= Screenshots =
 
 
 
v0.3
 
[[Image:MsgFsner_extension_screenshot.jpg|thumb|widthpx| ]]
 
Full screen window with navigation UI
 

Latest revision as of 15:18, 7 October 2011