[Padma] Re: padma and Thunderbird

[Nagarjuna Venna]

Sorry for the delayed response. Please see inline.

On 8/21/06, V S Rawat <vsrawat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/21/2006 08:44 PM India Time, _V S Rawat_ wrote:
>
> > How does padma extension work in TB 1.5?
> >
> > Under UPDATE, it asks us to add "sites" that we want padma to work on.
> > There is no meaning of websites as such in a mailreader. It should be
> > domain name.

You are right. I didn't bother to change the UI depending on the
client (i.e. one for FF and one for TB).

> >
> > Also, when I select "Devnagari" under scripts, and "ITRANS" in schemes
> > in manula transform settings, I get a rightclick option "transform TAB
> > to Tamil". Where does this TAB and TAMIL coming from?

I think this was a bug in one of the older releases. As far as I know,
it has been fixed.

> >
> > There is a hindi-forum at yahoogroups.com mailing lists whose most of the
> > mails are coming messed on account of character encoding. They are
> > correctly written in unicode devnagari but their encoding becomes
> > western iso-8859-1 thus appears as junk. We need to manually change it
> > to unicode utf-8 then the mail appears in correct unicode devnagari.
> >
> > how to automatically correct such encodings for such specific mailing
> > lists in Thunderbird?

I'm guessing this is relatively straightforward. You can probably
write an extension in which you would register for an event that will
tell you when a mail is being opened/rendered. This is kind of
analogous to the event Padma registers for in the browser (when the
user visits a new page). You can then probably change the page
encoding - see the Padma code for one way to automatically change the
page encoding. We do that for certain broken pages.

> >
> > ----------
> > while we are at it, please give option to sort the list of sitenames in
> > "update". The sites are currently appearing in the order they are added,
> > and it takes a long time to vade through the list trying to find whether
> > a site is there or not.

Need volunteers for this. I think there is a TODO in the code
indicating that sorting should be implemented. The problem is that the
XUL list control I'm using does not have a sort feature built in. The
best solution is to replace the list control with a tree control (like
the cookies dialog in FF).

> While we are at it, please guide me which site name to give for auto
> transform in thunderbird?
>
> Whether it should be sender's id's domain name, or From id's domain
> name, or To id's domain name?
>

As explained above, this dialog is useless for what you are trying to solve.

Thanks,
nagarjuna