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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/15/2017, 9:53:25 AM, The Wanderer
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:wanderer@fastmail.fm"><wanderer@fastmail.fm></a> wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">(This is drifting offtopic, if not already there. Also, I apologize for
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On 2017-04-13 at 11:21, Tanstaafl wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed Apr 12 2017 11:50:11 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), The
Wanderer <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:wanderer@fastmail.fm"><wanderer@fastmail.fm></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">So far as I recall, there are only two main things I still want
from the Thunderbird 2 UI which I've been unable to regain:
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I've thought of a third one: the message header pane. AFAIK it's still
not possible to set things up so you get the same information in the
same space as was the case with TB2, and although the tweaks from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_3.1_-_New_Features_and_Changes#Gaining_Vertical_Space">http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_3.1_-_New_Features_and_Changes#Gaining_Vertical_Space</a>
and ones based on but not identical to the ones from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Make_Thunderbird_3.1_look_like_Thunderbird_2">http://kb.mozillazine.org/Make_Thunderbird_3.1_look_like_Thunderbird_2</a>
come close enough that I can live with the result, they're not perfect.</pre>
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I'm curious what you were missing that CompactHeader doesn't give
you for the MEssage Pane HEader?<br>
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<pre wrap="">(I should perhaps clarify slightly: I don't insist that the quick-filter
widget be a text box in the old style. I would have no problem if it
behaved exactly like the collection of widgets that appear in the
toolbar, albeit with less horizontal space between them than the toolbar
provides, and if those widgets could only be moved as a unit - as long
as that unit could be moved around like any other widget, rather than
being fixed in a separate toolbar.)</pre>
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Well, if you read the comments in the bug and/or try the Unifed
Search Addon, I think you'd like what you saw. It still works (I
think), but as I said, it isn't perfect.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Note: it was explained on one of the other lists (tb-planning? dev?)
that it is entirely possible for Thunderbird to add WebExtension
APIs independently of what the Firefox devs add for Firefox.
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...and the underlying structural reasons why that decision was made are
such that, much though I dislike it, I'm not sure it would be possible
(much less practical) to make a different decision on the Thunderbird
side with its significantly less available manpower.</pre>
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Yes, while it would apparently be trivial for TB to manage
extensions of the Webextensions API to provide hooks as deep as we
wanted/needed, independent of Mozilla/Firefox, the matter of finding
devs capable of writing/extending said APIs is obviously not
trivial.<br>
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