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nohamelin / simple-locale-switcher

Easier management of the user interface language in Mozilla applications
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Support Thunderbird 60.0 & 68.0 #18

Open nohamelin opened 6 years ago

nohamelin commented 6 years ago

Add-ons Guide for Thunderbird 57 and beyond

It's a meta bug to track those post-Quantum upstream Firefox changes that affected the add-on compatibility with the next major Thunderbird release (and SeaMonkey, by the way):

Since Thunderbird 60 or older:

Waiting by a fix by the Thunderbird team:

Since Thunderbird 68

ovari commented 5 years ago

Perhaps some items here can help: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1500731

Language packs can always be download and installed from here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.2.1/linux-x86_64/xpi/hu.xpi http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.2.1/linux-x86_64/xpi/

Config Editor set "intl.locale.requested". If you dislike touching prefs directly, you can also open a platform console and type Services.locale.setRequestedLocales(["hu", "en-US"]); which does the same plus validates the input.

nohamelin commented 5 years ago

Development will be resumed: let's hope to have a working build for the next Thunderbird 68.0 before it hits the release channel...

ovari commented 5 years ago

Should support for v60.0 be dropped as there are big changes between v60.0 and 68.0?

nohamelin commented 5 years ago

The priority is 68.0, next is 60.0: it's possible that Thunderbird 68 will not be good for some people (including myself) and they will decide to postpone the upgrade for a time. But I have not evaluated yet how big are the changes between both versions, so I can't say for sure.

Nokia808 commented 4 years ago

@nohamelin Hi. Thank you for re-establishment of development for this very needed add-on. Can I ask: how long approximately remaining to fix this issue ?

ovari commented 4 years ago

@ryanleesipes @cleidigh could you please help enable this add-on for Thunderbird 68 to be available on ATN?

This add-on can help @jotasprout, @newton181 et al. with updating screenshots for the Thunderbird website https://github.com/thundernest/thunderbird-website/issues/36

This add-on is very useful as when it was available for the supported Thunderbird, is had a lot of users.

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Thank you

ovari commented 4 years ago

How do I change Thunderbird's locale so that I can test a localization of my add-on? https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/addons/T93d42648aa43151e

nohamelin commented 4 years ago

Development will be resumed: let's hope to have a working build for the next Thunderbird 68.0 before it hits the release channel...

Well, Tb68 hits the release channel a good time ago but sadly I, again, hardly had time to work on it, and it's very unlikely that I will have it in the near future. I really wanted to keep the development for Thunderbird while the latter still support in some way XUL add-ons, but it's safe to treat this project (along with all my XUL add-on development work) in practice as dead.

If somebody want to develop a new add-on for it I can provide at least some guidance. I will update the README and some other related pages in the following days.

cleidigh commented 4 years ago

@nohamelin That's unfortunate this a nice useful extension! If you are okay with it, I would like to flag this in the extension reports perhaps looking for an adopter. If we can get an adopter would you be okay with keeping the ID and adding a new author? Also what would you prefer concerning the repository. I am trying to improve the process for hooking up new developers with old extensions. Cheers @cleidigh

nohamelin commented 4 years ago

If you are okay with it, I would like to flag this in the extension reports perhaps looking for an adopter.

Go ahead.

If we can get an adopter would you be okay with keeping the ID and adding a new author?

It's possible but I'm not very open to the idea, as I really don't want to run into a sort of situation where, by example, a new author managing this add-on decides to put ads or any other ugly monetization system. Quick Locale Switcher fell on it, sort of, many years ago. I would prefer seeing independent alternatives being published and leaving this add-on archived for people using old Tb releases, but well, let's see first what comes up.

cleidigh commented 4 years ago

@nohamelin okay, so you would rather somebody does not fork your code? You prefer someone else start something from scratch? I just want to make sure so I do not misrepresent your desires.

nohamelin commented 4 years ago

@cleidigh I don't have anything against forks: they are welcome, the MPL license is for that, while it ends being published in ATN with a new ID and name (though something as SimpleLocaleSwitcher2 is perfectly fine).