[Sage] New Sage unofficial mod for v1.3.6 available!

[too_much green_tea]

--- Graham King <graham at darkcoding.net> wrote:

>    Great idea. Could you post a patch of your
> changes ? Then I can 
> integrate them with my changes.
> 
That's kinda hard to do on my side. I don't really use
any programming tools - I simply open up Sage's jar
file and use a good text editor (SciTE). I do,
however, indicate all the new changes I made using
comment blocks. So just search for "too_much green_tea
mod" and you should be able to find them all. 

I tend to go along with the developers' original
structure without significantly modifying their
approach, so my changes should be fairly easy to
follow.

>   The two things I needed most were:
> 
>   - Count of unread items by each post
>   - Timeout on loading each feed
> 
>   I have added these myself. Screenshot, patch (for
> latest version of 
> Sage from CVS), and the full .XPI are available from
> here:
>
http://www.darkcoding.net/software/sage-unread-posts-count-patch/
> 
>   The new extension will register itself as 1.4X, as
> it is based on the 
> 1.4 from CVS.
> 
I was going to roll your patch into this 2nd version
of the unofficial mod as well, but there were a couple
of reasons why I haven't done so:

1) It sounded like the developers have a rather
different approach to v1.4 than v1.3.6, and I'm not
certain changes in v1.4 are compatible with v1.3.6,
and vice versa.

2) Just like you, I have trouble figuring out how to
contribute to the main CVS, thus I prefer to make
changes to the released v1.3.6 instead of v1.4 to
avoid creating branches that may not be compatible
with each other in the future.

>   I have also written up some very brief notes on
> getting started with 
> hacking sage, here:
> 
>
http://www.darkcoding.net/software/firefox-sage-extension-beginning-development/
> 
>   If other people want these features, maybe they
> could be contributed 
> back to the main CVS branch ? Let me know what I
> need to do.
> 
I was planning on tackling maybe one or two items from
the request list per month - until the new v1.4 is
released. Hopefully by then everyone will be happy
with v1.4 and none of the mods will be needed, and I
can go back to having fun with CSS (much less labor
intensive.) :)

If you would like to join efforts on modifying v1.3.6
as well, I'm sure the request list will shrink a lot
faster. Just know that it's thankless work - it's not
likely that your name will ever go on the developers'
list, and your work will likely become obsolete the
moment a new version is released. 

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