Jun 7, 2020

Thread coloring and tagging in message header view (Tag Popup 2.0.2)

Tag Popup 2.0.2 is available.
The followings are newly implemented in this version:
  • Coloring of thread pane
  • Tagging in message header view
Download:

NOTE:
From v2.0.2, add-on ID is changed to the same one as Tag Toolbar.
So, Thunderbird will recognize v2.0.2 and older version are different add-ons.
And v2.0.2 only supports Thunderbird 77.0b3 and up.
It cannot be installed into Thunderbird 68.x.


Coloring of thread pane
This functionality is the same as Tag Toolbar's one.
It changes background color of unselected message by attached tag color.



Tagging in header view
Tag Popup does not have an additional toolbar, which is the main functionality of Tag Toolbar, due to the limitation of MailExtensions framework. Against the fallback, Tag Popup implements similar functionality in the message header.

As a Thunderbird's original functionality, attached tags are displayed in the header view. In addition to that, other tags are also enumerated with its background is colored by white. By clicking the labels, you can toggle tags.

In the following example, "Important" and "Work" tags are attached to the message; "Personal", "To Do" and "Later" are not.
If you click Important or Work, the clicked tag will be detached from the message.
If you click Personal, To Do or Later, the clicked tag will be attached to the message.


If you try it on IMAP, the display change will delay and may look like wrongly tagged.
In this case, select another message and then back to the message.
It seems problem of Thunderbird.
Please note.

If you have a lot of tags, your header become larger.
For that case, you can disable it by option.


Options
The two functionalities are enabled by default.
If you do not need them, you can disable.
And the thread pane coloring can be adjusted, same as Tag Toolbar.

Please note the coloring will apply after restart of Thunderbird.
The preview is changed if you modify the Lightness or Text color setting.
Intended usage is that you configure as you like by checking the preview and then restart.



Others
Due to the background color of Tag Popup, some tags like yellowed one were difficult to read.
So, such tags are displayed as black characters. You can identify color of the tags by the colored underline.

The "TEST" tag in the following is an example.



I think Tag Popup becomes similar to Tag Toolbar now.
So, Tag Toolbar will not be maintained for Thunderbird 78 and be replaced by Tag Popup.




4 comments:

bvwatson said...

Thread Coloring is not working. The background color shows up only when the message selected.

Iʻm running on Windows 10, Thunderbird 78.2.2 (32-bit), TagPopup Release 2.1.5.

h.ogi said...

Do you install other add-ons or theme?

bvwatson said...

Should I open a bug report?

[OS] Windows 10

[Application] Thunderbird 78.2.2 (32-bit)

[Themes] default

[Extensions]
Name Version Enabled ID
Amazon.com 1.1 true amazondotcom@search.mozilla.org
Bing 1.0 true bing@search.mozilla.org
DuckDuckGo 1.0 true ddg@search.mozilla.org
Full Address column 1.0.0 true full-address-column@lukasz.kosson.net
Google 1.0 true google@search.mozilla.org
Mail Merge 7.2.1 true mailmerge@example.net
Manually sort folders 2.0.2 true tbsortfolders@xulforum.org
Provider for Google Calendar 78.0.1 true {a62ef8ec-5fdc-40c2-873c-223b8a6925cc}
Remove Duplicate Messages 0.5rc1 true {a300a000-5e21-4ee0-a115-9ec8f4eaa92b}
Show Address Only 0.2.0 true showaddressonly@rip238.selfip.com
Signature Switch 1.8.2 true {2ab1b709-ba03-4361-abf9-c50b964ff75d}
Tag Popup 2.1.5 true {61A64500-335C-418D-8FCB-E072A9ABF3DA}
Wikipedia (en) 1.0 true wikipedia@search.mozilla.org

inch said...

Hi,
I'm a user of the old version TagToolBar for a while and I would like to find in the new TagPopup the number of each Tag printed in the text in the massage header bar.
It's beacause I use these number key shortcuts to apply the tags and I dont remember the the numbers ...
Thx !
inch

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