953968 - Move messagestyles and emoticon themes to add-ons manager

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Other, enhancement)

Description

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 530 at 2010-09-29 14:51:00 UTC ***

Maybe we should move messagestyle themes and emoticon themes to the add-ons manager, where the application themes are already living, since having appearance related items in both the preferences and add-ons manager might be confusing to some? (this is only a guess!).

Comment 1

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 530 at 2010-09-29 14:55:54 UTC ***

Mossop posted a blog entry (http://www.oxymoronical.com/blog/2010/07/How-to-extend-the-new-Add-ons-Manager) about adding new categories to the add-ons manager.

You need to create a new provider, update the UI, and notify the UI of changes. Code is available at http://hg.oxymoronical.com/extensions/SlipperyMonkey/

Comment 2

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 530 at 2010-09-29 14:56:43 UTC ***

Some thoughts: 

16:53	Mic|web	We could take advantage of the space available on the add-ons manager and show small preview images of messagestyles and emoticon themese
16:53	Mic|web	*themes
16:54	Mic|web	The themes could bring an own perview image and if not, we could generate one on install?
16:54	Mic|web	ie taking a screenshot of a preview browser..?

Comment 3

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 530 at 2010-10-02 17:50:05 UTC ***

I think it could be a good contributor project if Florian agrees with the idea behind this bug?

Mossop's blog (oxymoronical.com) and the existing code for loading and displaying themes in the options dialog are plenty of help to do such a thing.

Comment 4

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 530 at 2010-10-02 20:15:37 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #3)
> I think it could be a good contributor project if Florian agrees with the idea
> behind this bug?
I'm not sure I agree with all the ideas here.
Adding categories in the add-on manager for emoticon themes, messages styles and (in the future) sound themes sounds like a good idea, and I hope there would be a way to do something better than the current way we use to decide if an add-on is a message theme or an emoticon theme or just a regular add-on that takes care of itself.

I'm not sure however that the UI to select the currently used theme should be moved to the add-on manager. It wouldn't make sense for example to go to the add-on manager to select which variant of the default theme to use, or which of the built-in theme to use. Those things are really preferences.

By the way, I'm not sure of what we are going to do with the add-on manager in general. The current (moz2) UI looks pretty bad outside a browser. It's clearly been designed to fill the space of a tab in a fullscreen window, not to be a separate window.

Comment 5

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.