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jobisoft / quicktext

An extension for Thunderbird that lets you create templates that can be easily inserted into your own emails.
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Wish: Reduce the required permissions of the plugin #338

Open fthommen opened 1 year ago

fthommen commented 1 year ago

Would it be possible to reduce the required permissions of the quicktext plugin? I'd really like to use it, but permission requests like

image

from a third-party plugin software will always and immediately be denied by me (and I assume also by many others :-) )

jobisoft commented 1 year ago

Maybe next year. It requires a full rewrite to convert the extension from a legacy extension to a WebExtension.

fthommen commented 1 year ago

ok. Next year is near :-). But thanks anyway for considering at all

Silther commented 1 year ago

Maybe next year.

That would be great. info

jobisoft commented 1 year ago

Working on it (because I want to get away from that permission), but it takes time.

jobisoft commented 1 year ago

Closing in favor of https://github.com/jobisoft/quicktext/issues/371

h-larsson commented 9 months ago

Both issues have been closed but it seems like this issue has not been resolved. Could you please update the status of it?

jobisoft commented 9 months ago

Fair point. Expect a new version this summer. Here is the todo list.

The WebExtension development branch is still using some Experiment code, but I think we can get rid of all of it.

getQuicktextFilePaths() and readTextFile()

The add-on reads templates from the user's profile folder. That has to change, and I will store templates in local storage. "Global" templates can be provisioned using the managed storage. Alternatively, templates can be provisioned via HTTP(S) imports on startup (the URL can be provisioned via managed storage).

readBinaryFile

This is used to read and include images in templates. My proposal is to let users import images into Quicktext (store the image source in local storage / local IndexDB) and let templates reference images by an identifier.

pickFile()

WebExtension can open FilePickers, but only from a web page using <input type="file" />. However, Quicktext also has two menu entries to include local text/html files. I need to make the menu open a small popup, where the user is prompted to click on the "open file" button.

LegacyPrefs API

I still include the LegacyPrefs API to allow admins to provision overrides for defaultImport and templateFolder, both will be dropped in favor of managed storage.

Action Items (no showstoppers, just a lot of work)