Feature Request: Ability to Customize/Organize the Arrangement of Custom Strings

[EnigmaSolved]

(This is continuing a dialog begun via email.)

It would be nice to be able to change:

• the order of custom strings,
• and maybe also to create subfolders/submenus at will.

If you could clone the interface from the Clippings extension that'd be perfect (the Clippings Manager window is fantastic): https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/clippings/

[EnigmaSolved]

The above also relates somewhat to https://github.com/poohsen/thunderlink/issues/2.

I like that in 0.10 you've switched to just displaying the custom strings, as it is nice to have control over all the slots (and not have two reserved for the original TL strings), and it makes the right-click menu much cleaner. And I just saw that you added the <tbexe> variable, so that users can recreate the "original" TL strings if they want. Things are looking good! :)

[poohsen]

Hi Sean,

 

the original two two options are now supplied as the default values for the first and second items in that menu. You probably don't see them because you already have custom values set, but if you went to the TB preferences and reset the prefs for custom-string-1 and custom-string-2 then you'd see them.

 

The next things I want to tackle are the custom prefs location, the automatic tagging and bug with subjects that contain special chars.

Hopefully, this will happen next week.

 

Have a nice weekend!

Chris

 

Gesendet: Freitag, 04. Oktober 2013 um 15:48 UhrVon: "Sean Slevin" notifications@github.comAn: poohsen/thunderlink thunderlink@noreply.github.comBetreff: Re: [thunderlink] Feature Request: Ability to Customize/Organize the Arrangement of Custom Strings (#3)

The above also relates somewhat to #2.

I like that in 0.10 you've switched to just displaying the custom strings, as it is nice to have control over all the slots (and not have two reserved for the original TL strings), and it makes the right-click menu much cleaner. And I just saw that you added the variable, so that users can recreate the "original" TL strings if they want. Things are looking good! :)

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[EnigmaSolved]

the original two options are now supplied as the default values for the first and second items in that menu. You probably don't see them because you already have custom values set, but if you went to the TB preferences and reset the prefs for custom-string-1 and custom-string-2 then you'd see them.

Right, good. I was figuring it would probably work something like that. I think this is a nice setup as it gives folks a starting point, but also gives them control to full customize. :)

The next things I want to tackle are the custom prefs location, the automatic tagging and bug with subjects that contain special chars. Hopefully, this will happen next week.

Sounds great man!

Have a nice weekend!

Thanks! You too Chris! :)

Sean

[EnigmaSolved]

It occurred to me it would be illustrative if I also linked to an example from Clippings, like I did for another dialog: Their interface is very easy to use, and if you can reuse some of their code perhaps that can save you a bunch of work. :)