205773 - Need a way to uninstall the Mozilla mail indicator

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Gili Tzabari]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030509
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030509

Right now the Mozilla installer will add a New Mail indicator into WarpCenter. I
want to be able to uninstall it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Adam Hauner]

-> Installer?

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

never heard about it

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

really

Comment 4

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Just delete the icon for Mail in the Mozilla folder.

Comment 5

[Gili Tzabari]

Michael: doesn't work, I just tried it with Mozilla 1.4

Comment 6

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

You have to reboot after deleting it.

Comment 7

[Gili Tzabari]

Confirmed, works after a reboot. Is this documented anywhere? It should be.

Comment 8

[Steve Wendt]

Now documented here:
http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html

Resolve as WONTFIX?

Comment 9

[Gili Tzabari]

Steve,

  The link you provided is:

a) unofficial (we should bundle this in the product README at the very least)
b) talks about installing but not *uninstalling* the mail indicator

Comment 10

[Steve Wendt]

It *does* say how to remove the mail indicator (text is even in red right now).

Comment 11

[Gili Tzabari]

Confirmed, I see it on the website now. I strongly recommend we include this in
the README instead of relying on a website to provide this information.

The ideal solution would be for the installer to actually allow users to
uninstall the component instead of relying on their manual intervention.

Comment 12

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

The uninstaller isn't really component based.

And we dont' really have a README for the OS/2 product.

The only thing I can think of is to modify the installer to give the user a
choice of whether to have the indicator or not.

Comment 13

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

I've decided to remove the mail indicator and have Steve Wendt update his page
to tell people how to create the icon.

Comment 14

[Steve Wendt]

What should it say differently from what it says now?

Comment 15

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

So in hindsight, I never should have done this.

Most peoples machine just get a blank square on the WarpCenter that they don't
know what to do with.

So they have to go to Steve's page to learn what to do anyway.

I've changed the object ID from CCINBOX to MOZILLAMAIL

No more new mail indicator unless you want it.