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kewisch
Support of tag management
This extension is sometimes mentioned as a replacement of the Nostalgy or Nostalgy++ TB add-ons. QuickMove could be a serious alternative if the management of tags was also supported.
I don't know if this is included in your plans / roadmap. This does not seem to be mentionned in the issues so far, so I was asking, just in case.
how would tags be involved with moving / copying mail? May be something I could use for Tabs in my Add-on.
Managing tags is part of my workflow for processing mails. Currently, TB can assign ten key shortcuts (keys 0..9) to tags, but this strongly limits the number of tags used. I currently use a lot of tags, and the ability to quickly tag mails from the keyboard, without reaching the mouse, is really important for me.
I like this. It shouldn't be too difficult to do, probably a bunch of copy/paste work from the current code.
There is an open function that attaches the popup to a UI element: https://github.com/kewisch/quickmove-extension/blob/main/src/content/quickmove.js#L495
then a keyboard shortcut, and the menupopup for the new tag menu: https://github.com/kewisch/quickmove-extension/blob/main/src/api/quickmove.js#L79
then you need to populate the popup when it opens using an event. Here is the one for the other folders: https://github.com/kewisch/quickmove-extension/blob/main/src/content/quickmove.js#L134
at the end there is an execute function that needs to call the Thunderbird code to tag: https://github.com/kewisch/quickmove-extension/blob/main/src/content/quickmove.js#L367
Hope this helps, I'm glad to hear you are considering contributing!
I'm going to release this version soon, though I wanted to get a few other issues fixed before I do so. If you want to test it, you can download the sources, go to Thunderbird's "Debug Add-ons" in the tools/developer menu, then select the manifest.json file in the src folder. Or zip up the contents (not the folder itself) of the src folder, and install that as the add-on.
Where do you store zip files for you release?
They seems not being available in the github release pages.
As my thunderbird automatically updated this extension (among a lot of other things) some day ago (to version 2.0.1, which, BTW, seems not to have tag management included), I am hit by #88. I am thus willing to take the time to test a recent version (with the tag management available if possible).