394599 - Integrate OS X Contextual Menu System with Eudora

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Drew]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/522.11.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.3 Safari/522.12.1
Build Identifier: 8.0.0b1

Please override/enhance Penelope's/Eudora's current contextual menu system.  Please integrate it with the services OS X offers.  I use OnMyCommand (which is totally awesome!) <http://free.abracode.com/cmworkshop/on_my_command.html> to insert a few menus in various programs.  The items I had in place when I used Eudora are not there any more when I context click in the new Penelope/Eudora. :-(

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Context click (aka right click, control click) on selected text, a mail message, etc... Note the menu that pops up contains none of the standard OS X offerings.
Actual Results:  
Pop up, Contextual Menu *without* OS customizations.

Expected Results:  
Pop up Contextual Menu *with* standard OS X items, and my own customizations from ~/Library/Contextual Menu Items/

I marked this as an enhancement, but really want to mark it as a Major broken feature since the old version of Eudora passed through OS contextual menu items in its own rendering of the contextual menu, and now that great feature is gone/broken. However, I'm not sure since some might say it's an addition to the current implementation, so...I marked it as an enhancement...(so I am trying to see the glass as half full, but my passion for its implementation is as strong as wishing to see a critical crashing bug fixed. :-)

Allowing OS contextual menu items to show up in Eudora's contextual menus allows me (you, anyone), to customize Eudora even more, as well hook in to our workflow in a powerful way.  OnMyCommand allows one to pipe UNIX commands together, send things to shell scripts, terminal windows, AppleScripts, create windows, etc..., with TONS of flexibility.

If you are a power user, you owe it yourself to check out the OnMyCommand contextual menu plug-in, it's open source and free, etc...   <http://free.abracode.com/cmworkshop/on_my_command.html>

Sorry if this sounds like a tacky advertisement and unrelated, but I love both of these, and want them to work together again.

Thank you very very much.

Comment 1

[Matt Dudziak]

I agree that it would be nice for things like OMC to work within Penelope. I use OMC as well.

I think this is an artifact of Penelope / Thunderbird being cross-platform. OS X integration is certainly high on my personal list (Address Book, Keychain, etc.).

Comment 2

[Graham Perrin]

See also 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104331 (reported 2001) and 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367867 (reported 2007) both apparently concerning System Services (Services menu and more) in Mac OS X. I have suggested that 367867 be closed as a duplicate of 104331 and votes from the duplicate transferred to the original.

Comment 3

[Matt Dudziak]

This really applies to Thunderbird as well so assigning there.

Comment 4

[Matt]

Eudora OSE ceased a long time ago.