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<div id="smartTemplate4-template">Hello Joshua,<br>
<br>
thanks for the input! I have revised the list on the Etherpad,
narrowing it down to 11 items:<br>
<br>
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<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp">Contacts {google
contact, morefunction for address book, funambol}</span></li>
</ul>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid527">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp">Message & News
Reading {Conversations, Image Zoom, LookOut, Foxy Proxy,
Compact Header, DispMUA)</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid938">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp">Folders &
Filters {QuickFolders, FiltaQuilla, Quick Folder Move,
Quick Filer, Folder Flags, Copy Sent to Current, Mail
Summaries} <font color="#999999">[As regards Filters vs.
Search, Filters are actually actions mainly designed to
modify messages or their locations]</font><br>
</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid950">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="">Message </span><span
class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp">C</span><span class="">omposi</span><span
class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp">tion {highlight text,
signature-switch, shrunked image resizer, Stationery,
smartTemplate4}</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1015">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="">Calendaring & Time</span><span
class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp"> {Lightning, FoxClocks,
Sun Cult, Google calendar provider, ThunderBirthDay} <font
color="#999999">[I think this <i>should </i>include
anything that involves displaying time / calendar
related stuff like timers / alarm clocks / moon phases
etc.]</font><br>
</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid970">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="">Dictionaries & Language support</span><span
class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp"> { Quick Translator,
Quick Locale Switcher, Zombie Keys, Dictionary Switcher }</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid802">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="">Backup & Archiving</span><span
class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp"> { ... are there a few
examples for this?? }<br>
</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid813">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp">Import / Export
{Password Exporter, Message Filter Import/Export,
accountex, ImportExportTools}</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid848">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="">P</span><span
class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp">rivacy </span><span
class="">& Security</span><span
class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp"> {Password Exporter,
EnigMail, Master Password+,..}</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid212">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="">Appearance</span><span
class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp"> & Customization <font
color="#999999">[could include addons that configure
themes]</font></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid160">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp">Miscellaneus</span></li>
</ul>
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And here are the ones that are probably not going to make it (I
personally would like to keep the first 2):<br>
<br>
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<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp">Tags {TaQuilla,
Tag Toolbar, Tb Conversations, Tags Toolbar }<font
color="#999999"> [I meant mail tags / labels. Again,
there are very few extensions,so this might not be
important as a category]</font></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1017">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp">Chat & IM<font
color="#999999"> [this is going to be more important in
the future, but there are not many extensions right
now]</font></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid302">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp">Signatures &
Headers<font color="#999999"> [dropped => Composition
and Reading]</font></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid584">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp">Browsing<font
color="#999999"> [(Web browsing) IMO this is unimportant
from the mail users view?]</font></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid648">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="author-g-bp45rxxysccqnvhp">Search Tools<font
color="#999999"> [there are not all that many addons
dealing with this in tb, and a lot is built in]</font></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/14/2012 8:33 AM, Axel Grude
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:502A457D.9000308@gmail.com" type="cite">
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<h2>Proposed new List</h2>
<ul>
<li><font color="#3333ff">Contacts</font></li>
<li><span class=""><span class="">Folders </span>Management<br>
</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</blockquote>
For clarity: are you talking about managing 10k messages in a
folder here, or managing 10k folders?<br>
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cite="mid:502A457D.9000308@gmail.com" type="cite">
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<ul>
<li><span class="">Message composing</span></li>
</ul>
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</blockquote>
Message Composition is probably a better name.<br>
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cite="mid:502A457D.9000308@gmail.com" type="cite">
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<ul>
<li><span class=""><font color="#3333ff">Message Reading</font></span></li>
<li><span class=""><font color="#3333ff">News Reading<br>
</font></span></li>
</ul>
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</blockquote>
I would combine these two for sure. The distinction isn't that
great (I believe the original intent was to separate NNTP-centric
addons from mail-centric, but particularly the fact that RSS was
at one point exposed in the UI as "News and Feeds" means that
"News" is a very poor name for classification).<br>
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cite="mid:502A457D.9000308@gmail.com" type="cite">
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<ul>
<li><span class="">Calendar & Date / Time related
add-ons</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</blockquote>
Very wordy title. "Calendar" or "Calendaring" is probably better,
since I don't think there's a lot of value in pulling some pure
date/time-related addons into the same category of what is
effectively addons to Lightning.<br>
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cite="mid:502A457D.9000308@gmail.com" type="cite">
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<ul>
<li><span class="">Signatures & Headers</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</blockquote>
This strikes me as two very different things smashed into one
category, and I don't think it's entirely clear from a user
perspective what would go in here. "Signature" is overloaded to
mean both S/MIME-esque signatures as well as that little thing at
the bottom of every email, while I don't know how prevalent
"headers" is in use in the sense that it exists for email. If you
look at things from a workflow perspective, very likely everything
here would go into message composing or message reading anyways,
so having a specific section for them isn't very useful.<br>
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cite="mid:502A457D.9000308@gmail.com" type="cite">
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<ul>
<li><span class="">Filters</span></li>
<li><span class="">Search Tools</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</blockquote>
Filtering and search go hand-in-hand; I don't think there's a lot
of reason to separate the two out<br>
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cite="mid:502A457D.9000308@gmail.com" type="cite">
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<ul>
<li><font color="#cc0000"><span class="">Tags</span></font></li>
</ul>
</div>
</blockquote>
Which kind of tags? Tags in the calendar? address book? folder
tags? tags as folders? tags on messages? Too much ambiguity here,
and I don't think it usefully breaks up any components.<br>
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cite="mid:502A457D.9000308@gmail.com" type="cite">
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<ul>
<li><span class="">Chat & IM</span></li>
<li><font color="#3333ff"><span class="">Dictionaries &
Language support</span></font></li>
<li><span class="">Backup & Archiving</span></li>
<li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/extensions/privacy-and-security/">Privacy
and Security</a></li>
<li><span class="">Toolbars</span></li>
<li><span class="">Appearance</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</blockquote>
Appearance is a vague term, but I'm not quickly finding anything
better. I'm not certain there's any gain from splitting out
Toolbars from appearance, especially if we can come up for a name
for Appearance that would capture its intent better (AIUI, any UI
feature that's not directly controlled by or controlling anything
explicitly called out here).<br>
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cite="mid:502A457D.9000308@gmail.com" type="cite">
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<ul>
<li><span class="">Developer Tools</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</blockquote>
I'm divided here. There is/will be definitely a sizeable set of
tools to include in here if we port a lot of the current devtools
work to Thunderbird. On the other hand, I am not sure making this
an explicit category is any more beneficial than publishing an
add-on collection (or set of collections) for things like "this is
useful for debugging Thunderbird!"<br>
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cite="mid:502A457D.9000308@gmail.com" type="cite">
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<ul>
<li><span class="">Folder pane customisation</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</blockquote>
Customizing the folder pane is nothing more than another way to
manage a lot of folders/accounts.<br>
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cite="mid:502A457D.9000308@gmail.com" type="cite">
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<ul>
<li><span class="">Browsing</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</blockquote>
Browsing what? Considering that web browsing is not a core feature
of Thunderbird, I'm not sure there's value from separating from
miscellaneous.<br>
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cite="mid:502A457D.9000308@gmail.com" type="cite">
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<ul>
<li><span class=""><font color="#3333ff">Miscellaneus</font><br>
</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
Keep in mind that we do have search functionality for addons, and
we can build collections where it makes sense. With that in mind,
it is probably better to have very broad categories instead of
narrow definitions.<br>
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Joshua Cranmer
News submodule owner
DXR coauthor</pre>
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