On Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 1:08:21 AM UTC+1, Kris Maglione wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 01:06:09AM +0100, Jörg Knobloch wrote:
> > On 02/11/2017 00:41, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> >
> > 1) Remove the defaults/preferences directory support for extensions. This
> > is a feature that was used by legacy extensions but is not used by
> > WebExtensions.
> >
> > Is that the facility that legacy extensions can have
> > defaults/preferences/defaults.js to declare their preferences?
> >
> > In Thunderbird we're trying to keep legacy extensions working, currently
> > by having |ac_add_options "MOZ_ALLOW_LEGACY_EXTENSIONS=1"| in the
> > mozconfigs.
> >
> > So are the components legacy extensions rely on slowly dismantled? So some
> > will keep working and some will stop working?
>
> Yes. The components that non-bootstrapped add-ons rely on,
> anyway.
>
> > If so, what is the replacement? Setting up the preference in JS on the fly
> > in the add-on?
>
> Yes.
So what's the alternative for localized extension names and/or descriptions? At
the moment I have these two lines in my defaults/preferences/defaults.js:
pref("extensions.{CC3C233D-6668-41bc-AAEB-F3A1D1D594F5}.name",
"chrome://mailredirect/locale/mailredirect.properties");
pref("extensions.{CC3C233D-6668-41bc-AAEB-F3A1D1D594F5}.description",
"chrome://mailredirect/locale/mailredirect.properties");
And chrome/locale/<localename>/mailredirect.properties contains the localized
name/description:
extensions.{CC3C233D-6668-41bc-AAEB-F3A1D1D594F5}.name=Mail Redirect
extensions.{CC3C233D-6668-41bc-AAEB-F3A1D1D594F5}.description=Allow to redirect
(a.k.a. "remail") mail messages to other recipients.
Maybe this can temporarily changed to a localized section in the extension's
install manifest, but I suppose that functionality will go away too?
Onno
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