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Hello AMO Admins!<br>
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on the Tb-Planning list we had a detailed discussion last year
about the re-categorization of Thunderbird Extensions, now I would
like to give the suggestions to the AMO administration team,
trying to give an abridged version of the discussion. <br>
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The resulting list is available at this etherpad:<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://etherpad.mozilla.org/tb-amo-category-improvements">https://etherpad.mozilla.org/tb-amo-category-improvements</a><br>
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To track this item, I also just create this bug:<br>
<big><big><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=835063">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=835063</a></big></big><br>
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<h3>Final List</h3>
The list, with some example addons for each:<br>
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<ul>
<li>Contacts {google contact, morefunction for address book,
funambol}</li>
<li> Message & News Reading {Conversations, Image Zoom,
LookOut, Foxy Proxy, Compact Header, DispMUA)</li>
<li> Folders & Filters {QuickFolders, FiltaQuilla, Quick
Folder Move, Quick Filer, Folder Flags, Copy Sent to Current,
Mail Summaries}</li>
<li> Message Composition {highlight text, signature-switch,
shrunked image resizer, Stationery, smartTemplate4}</li>
<li> Calendar & Date / Time {Lightning, ReminderFox,
FoxClocks, Sun Cult, Provider for Google Calendar,
ThunderBirthDay}</li>
<li> Dictionaries & Language support { Quick Translator,
Quick Locale Switcher, Zombie Keys, Dictionary Switcher }</li>
<li> Import / Export {Password Exporter, Message Filter
Import/Export, accountex, ImportExportTools}</li>
<li> Privacy & Security {Password Exporter, EnigMail, Master
Password+,..}</li>
<li> Appearance & Customization (could include addons that
configure themes)</li>
<li>Chat & IM {Jabberpresence, TweeQuilla, New Account
Types, Additional Chat Protocols} there are a few at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://addons.instantbird.org">https://addons.instantbird.org</a> but I wouldn't bank on them
being ported to TB any time soon.<br>
There is
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/additional-chat-protocols/">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/additional-chat-protocols/</a></li>
<li><i>Message </i>Tags {TaQuilla, Tag Toolbar, Tb
Conversations, Tags Toolbar } [few but important]</li>
<li>Miscellaneus {TEBE, Browsing, etc.}<br>
</li>
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<h3>Rejected as Categories - Discussed as contentious</h3>
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Signatures& Headers [bwinton: part of Message Composing]<br>
Toolbars & Folder Pane cusomization [bwinton: part of
Appearance]<br>
Vincent: <br>
<blockquote type="cite">I love this new list. <br>
Just one last thing: should we really make one category for
Backup/Archiving and another one for Import/Export? In my
imagination, backup is just like a sort of export, isn't it?
And archiving is another way of moving messages throught
Thunderbird folders. Or maybe you should add the add-ons that
would be put in this category because it is not clear for me
right now.</blockquote>
Axel<br>
<blockquote type="cite">would flash be under "browsing",
"reading" or "misecallaneus" ?? I think I listed them in the
"To Be Discussed" list.</blockquote>
Mark Banner<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I think flash could be under any of
those categories - but we'd probably leave it up to the author
to decide (i.e. we'd just get them added).<br>
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Axel<br>
<blockquote type="cite"> I suggest we leave the new
categorization to the addon authors themselves. Do we allow
listing in 2 Categories like in Firefox?</blockquote>
Note on Folders + Filters:<br>
I meant filters that do filter actions (not the "filters" in
search)<br>
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Joshua Cranmer<br>
<blockquote>
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<li><span class="">Signatures & Headers</span></li>
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</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">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.</blockquote>
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<blockquote cite="mid:502A457D.9000308@gmail.com" type="cite">
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<li><span class="">Developer Tools</span></li>
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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!"</blockquote>
Patrick Cloke<br>
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<div><span>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></div>
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For what it's worth, there's probably a variety of extensions
on <a href="http://addons.instantbird.org">addons.instantbird.org</a>
that could be easily ported (some would just require the extra
Thunderbird info in install.rdf), but yes...right now there's
no extensions so it might be overzealous to include it...</blockquote>
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