Re: [Tracker] Thunderbird support. Patches for rev. 836

[Michal Pryc <Michal Pryc Sun COM>]

jamie wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:52 +0100, Michal Pryc wrote:
>   
> > Jamie,
> >
> > We were talking on the IRC about changing strings from beagle to 
> > tracker. Attached script does this. I have tested that and it works fine.
> > It need to be run from the ../thunderbird-extension directory (one level 
> > above thunderbird-extension). I didn't send patch, since it is much 
> > smaller to send script that do everything.
> >     
>
> done and applied - thanks
>
>   
> > Also there is small change in the configure.ac, since you have placed 
> > the extension in the extensions directory, so one check will fail, patch 
> > attached.
> >
> > I am also sending build xpi, since it is platform independent (tracker.xpi).
> >     
>
> ok where is this installed? (I added it to root of thunderbird-extension
> but makefile should specify where it goes for install)
>   
There are two ways of installing thunderbird-extension:
1. For each user
- In this case the tracker.xpi needs to be placed in the 
~/.thunderbird/$profile/extensions
where $profile is a directory name taken from ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini
- Or the user can install the extension using option from thunderbird 
(Tools->Add-ons)

2. Globally
- In this case the extension should be placed in the system, the 
possible locations are described:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installation_directory

So in my case it is /usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions

In that directory there should be unzipped xpi placed in the:
{b656ef18-fd76-45e6-95cc-8043f26361e7}
directory
/usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/{b656ef18-fd76-45e6-95cc-8043f26361e7}/files_from_xpi

> to be done then (it wont be usable til it is) - I can do the configure
> bit if the makefile is complete
>   
So the makefile should create this directory and copy all the files to 
it, but configure should determine where is the global installation 
directory and also give opportunity for the user to not install globally 
and just produce xpi file. Am I right?

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best
Michal Pryc