W dniu 09.12.2018, nie o godzinie 19∶08 +0100, użytkownik Adam Borowski napisał: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 06:26:53PM +0100, Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > > W dniu 09.12.2018, nie o godzinie 18∶08 +0100, użytkownik Adam > > Borowski > > napisał: > > > * Package name : birdtray > > > * URL : https://github.com/gyunaev/birdtray > > > Description : system tray notifications for Thunderbird > > > Birdtray provides systray notifications for Thunderbird. It > > > displays > > > the count of unread mail, hides the Thunderbird window when not > > > in use, > > > and restores it on clicking the tray icon. It also provides a > > > context > > > menu with commands such as starting composing a new mail. > > > . > > > It is a nasty hack -- an external process looking at > > > Thunderbird's > > > insides, it suffers from problems like noticing new mails only > > > after a > > > delay, having to restart Thunderbird just to hide its window, etc > > > -- > > > you'd want to use an extension like firetray instead -- but, it > > > is > > > likely that support for Thunderbird extensions will be dropped > > > soon, > > > possibly by the time you read these words. > > Is it not simpler and much more effective to communicate with > > Thunderbird via XPCOM ? > > That's part of XUL -- if that's gone, so goes XPCOM. Both are gone > from > Firefox since 57+, but have so far been retained in > Thunderbird. Alas, > upstream is deliberating whether to drop or not -- with signs > randomly > pointing to droppage or not. I don't know anything about Mozilla's > internal > politics (I'm only blindly packaging something I need), but as I > understand > it is a serious effort for the Thunderbird team to keep XUL after > sabotage > done by Mozilla's quantumization -- and as undermanned as they are, > it's > pretty likely they'll need to drop despite their wishes. > > According to birdtray's upstream, the next best way to communicate is > accessing Mork (.msf) files. > > I guess the upstream could explain more. And yeah, it's better when > a > packager knows something about the stuff he's packaging so if someone > with a > clue would be willing to help, it'd be deeply appreciated. I took look into birdtray on github https://github.com/gyunaev/birdtray /blob/master/src/modelnewemails.cpp and it seems to use Qt which seems to unreasonable in this case as Thunderbird AFAIK uses GTK https://supp ort.mozilla.org/pl/questions/1124868 and Qt would be bit unnecessery dependency.
I do not know, maybe DBus is still option.https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks /space/blog/unix/FirefoxDBusRemoteControl?showcomments There was plugin which used DBus from inside Thunderbird as internal extension https://github.com/tanwald/gnome-shell-extension-thunderbird- integration/blob/master/thunderbird- integration%40tanwald.net/extension.js . But maybe this DBus event still exists and can be communiated from separate process. Ahoy ! > > > Meow!
