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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/6/2015 2:46 PM, Axel Grude wrote:<br>
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<div id="smartTemplate4-template">To get Thunderbird to a UI which
has easy pre-definable paragraph styles (like the Ribbon in
Word) is actually one of my goals for the next 3 years, but I am
too much of a luddite to attempt it by patching Composer - I am
an Add-ons guy. The problem is that I do not know how risky any
development in this direction would be as I do not know if (and
when) Thunderbird decides to scrap the current composer and
replace it with another editor; which would potentially
invalidate any work put into this from an Add-on perspective.<br>
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Low risk. The experience of the past several years (e.g., ensemble,
Firefox Sync) have suggested that withholding implementation on the
basis that "it will all be rewritten soon" is a good way to make
sure it never gets done.<br>
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<div id="smartTemplate4-template"> It would be <i>absolutely
fantastic </i>if the Tb-Planning team could decide on a
binding strategy for the way forward with Composer as all we
hear at the grass route level are rumors. There are a coupkle of
people who had written prototypes for other editors (or
intergration work) but seemingly this never manifested. In the
long term I believe Thunderbird should build in (or License) its
own Editor component independant of whatever Mozilla / Firefox
decides. <br>
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I don't recall any prototypes ever maturing to the point of a
working compose fork/add-on. The closest any experiment ever got was
compose-in-a-tab which, as its author confided, was "barely usable."
What is lacking always has been resources.<br>
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Joshua Cranmer
Thunderbird and DXR developer
Source code archæologist</pre>
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