{"id":2131,"date":"2011-06-22T11:51:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T16:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:25:13","slug":"an-update-on-my-thunderbird-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/an-update-on-my-thunderbird-work\/","title":{"rendered":"An update on my Thunderbird work…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a really long time since I posted any updates about what I’ve been doing with Thunderbird.<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s a good reason – I’ve been hauling ass.<\/em> My Unity Launcher<\/a> and Messaging Menu<\/a> extensions have gone through several iterations, and are shaping up well.\u00a0 The plan is to bundle those extensions with the latest Thunderbird 5.0 beta to get some more user feedback.<\/p>\n

The majority of my work lately has been on a project called EDS Contacts Integration.\u00a0 Do you remember when I talked about Ubuntu One contacts sync<\/a>, and how I wanted to integrate that with Thunderbird’s address book?\u00a0 Well, I went to UDS<\/a> a few weeks back, and I learned that a bigger \/ better goal would be to integrate with EDS (Evolution Data Server<\/a>), which acts like the global address book, task list, calendar, etc for Ubuntu.\u00a0 If I integrate here, then *all* Evolution address books (including the Ubuntu One address book and Google Contacts address books) should be available in Thunderbird.\u00a0 So it’s a pretty big win.<\/p>\n

So, like the Unity Launcher and Messaging Menu integration, this integration is currently being implemented as a Thunderbird add-on.<\/p>\n

Currently, this add-on has basic read-only.\u00a0 I can view EDS address books, contacts and mailing lists.\u00a0 EDS contacts appear in the auto-complete when I start typing an e-mail address.\u00a0 They’re searchable.\u00a0 I can view the photos of EDS contacts.\u00a0 There are some edge cases that I haven’t addressed yet (reading address books that require authentication, for example).\u00a0 That’ll be coming soon.<\/p>\n

Here’s a screenshot.<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve also started work on write capabilities.\u00a0 I can now add and remove addresses on a mailing list, and set whether or not I want e-mail addresses to be hidden when I send mail to the list.<\/p>\n

So, in short, I’m making pretty decent progress.\u00a0 Not bad for a month’s work.<\/p>\n

But I can’t just fork over the add-on for you to play with, because this work has several other moving parts.\u00a0 The first moving part is the core address book de-RDF’ing work I started a few months back<\/a>.\u00a0 The patch for this<\/a> is landing in Thunderbird’s trunk shortly, which I’ve very excited about.\u00a0 And the second moving part:\u00a0 a patch in trunk<\/a> where I’ve made a few slight modifications to the address book infrastructure.\u00a0 This makes it easier for add-ons (like my EDS integration add-on) to extend the behaviour of the address book.\u00a0 This will also, hopefully, be landing shortly once I’ve polished it up, and gotten it through review.<\/p>\n

Once those patches land, my add-on should work properly on trunk.\u00a0 And not long after that, the patches will land in an Early Bird<\/a> release for you all to try!<\/p>\n

More blogging soon.\u00a0 And more screenshots.\u00a0 And maybe a video.\u00a0 Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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