1476752 - Option to access Lightning preferences from the addons submenu of the hamburger button has vanished

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[[:MakeMyDay]]

After Lightning is available again, Lightning is not listed anymore in the addons submenu of the hamburger button, which provided acces to the extension preferences.

I assume that is related to replacing install.rdf by manifest.json in bug 1448808 - the former defined the pref target location in <em:optionsURL>, the latter could do similar by specifying options_ui [1], which we didn't include. At a glance I didn't find any hit when searching for options_ui in c-c itself, so maybe another bug would be needed to add support for it.

I'm filing this because it's a regression, however I propose to won't fix at least for Lightning - bundled extension's prferences should have their native home in TB options imho. 

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/options_ui

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

options_ui works, but the page would be a HTML page within the WebExtension. You can see it in action on https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/quick-folder-move/

Given Lightning prefs are in the Thunderbird prefs, I'm also leaning towards WONTFIX for Lightning.

Comment 2

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Resolving as WONTFIX as Lightning is now part of Thunderbird (and it has already been suggested 2 years ago).