Buddhatron project plan

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).

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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

• Blog

• 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

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	Tbird Extensions Building a Tb Ext Mozilla Cross Reference 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	Chrome Manifest Overlays Keyboard Shortcuts 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	Mail database Working with windows

Screenshots

v0.3

Full screen window with navigation UI