Thunderchat alert! 🚨

Our Rust and Exchange Community Office Hours start in one hour, at 16:00 UTC! Find out how to join us on Big Blue Button in our blog post. Hope to see you there! 🦀

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/april-2024-community-office-hours-rust-and-exchange-support/

#Thunderbird #Rust #Development

April 2024 Community Office Hours: Rust and Exchange Support - The Thunderbird Blog

Thunderbird developers discuss enabling Rust in Thunderbird, using Rust to provide native Exchange support, and their future plans.

^{Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)}

In case you're not following our blog (gasp!), our Rust developers have the technical details on how we're using the language to bring in native Exchange support in the latest post.

So if you're a fan of all things Rust and email protocols, and you want to know what we've done so far and what's coming next, give it a read - and come to our office hours all about Rust and Exchange tomorrow at 16:00 UTC!

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/adventures-in-rust-bringing-exchange-support-to-thunderbird/

#Thunderbird #Rust #Development

Adventures In Rust: Bringing Exchange Support To Thunderbird

Thunderbird will support Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) natively, all written in Rust! Read about our Rusty adventures, the technical nature of the EWS

^{Heather Ellsworth (The Thunderbird Blog)}

If you're eagerly anticipating Rust and native Exchange support in Thunderbird, have questions, or want to know what this is all about, you'll want to tune into our next Community Office Hours on April 23 at 16:00 UTC. 🦀

We'll have three of our Rust developers, including @brendan and @leftmostcat to provide info and answer questions and be in our new Big Blue Button room, provided by @kde ! Find out all the details here: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/april-2024-community-office-hours-rust-and-exchange-support/ 💙

#Thunderbird #Rust #Development

April 2024 Community Office Hours: Rust and Exchange Support - The Thunderbird Blog

Thunderbird developers discuss enabling Rust in Thunderbird, using Rust to provide native Exchange support, and their future plans.

^{Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)}

We want to find bugs before our users do! So, since the release of 115 Supernova, we’ve been putting a much stronger focus on improving our automated testing.

Read all about it in this new blog from Staff Engineer Geoff Lankow:

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/automated-testing-how-we-catch-thunderbird-bugs-before-you-do/

#Thunderbird #QA #Development #Bugs

Automated Testing: How We Catch Thunderbird Bugs Before You Do

We're improving the state of our automated testing, so we can catch bugs BEFORE users do. Learn more inside!

^{Geoff Lankow (The Thunderbird Blog)}

We hear you: it IS frustrating that Thunderbird doesn't have a proper conversation view! It's finally time to answer WHY, and explain what we're doing to solve it.

It all started about 20 years ago...

PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/w/3wkuHE1GhpZXA5Z17LGGba

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3dyGB9oHe4

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Development

When Will Thunderbird Get A PROPER Conversation View?

It's a great question. And a frustrating situation. Why doesn't Thunderbird have a proper threaded view that includes your SENT messages? Alex explains the blocker, and what we're doing to solve it.

^TILvids

We've got a new Developer Digest, and this one is full of updates on Rust and Exchange support, a better mailing list subscription experience, and a successful ESMification! 🎉

Read all about these developments and small but meaningful fixes and upgrades here: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-march-24/

#Thunderbird #Development #Rust

Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest: March 2024 - The Thunderbird Blog

In this month's Thunderbird Development Digest, Alex updates us on Rust and Exchange, list management, and successful ESMification.

^{Alessandro Castellani (The Thunderbird Blog)}

I am now a very responsible Linux app developer who verified their apps on @flathub

#theFutureIsNow #betterLateThanNever

😎

#Flathub #Flatpak #Linux #development

I've seen a few app maintainers lately mentioning that bleeding edge libraries are required and that distro X in version Y isn't supported.

This is why you should have a Flatpak manifest in your repository; not just on Flathub.

It lets contributors easily build and test the development version without having to worry about the host.

Upgrading or downgrading your OS shouldn't stop anyone from working on your app.

#Linux #development #GNOME #KDE #Flatpak #Flathub

Inkscape‘s development version has now switched to GTK4 ✨ , the current version of the underlying UI framework.

This is a huge architectural 🏗️ improvement for Inkscape, and will enable proper graphics acceleration ⏩ in the future.

This quick transition - only about 9 months - was made possible by donations, as we’ve invested approx. $80,000 towards it.

Support our development:

https://inkscape.org/support-us/donate/

#inkscape #development #gtk

Donate | Inkscape

^inkscape.org

Blueprint; the markup language and tooling for #GTK is out in version 0.12

Here are the highlights ✨

Brand-new formatter to keep files tidy by @gregorni 🎩

AdwAlertDialog are supported

Emit warnings for deprecated features in GTK, GLib, etc

New IDE integration features
• document symbols
• "Go to definitions"
• Code action for importing missing namespace

We also celebrate 70 applications on Flathub built with Blueprint.

https://jwestman.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blueprint-compiler/

Happy coding

#GNOME #development

Workbench 46 is out! 🛠️

https://flathub.org/apps/re.sonny.Workbench

Actually it was a couple of hours ago before GNOME 46 but I didn't want to steal the show 😎

Here are the highlights 💡

Inline diagnostics for #Rust and #Python

New Library demos: 📚

"Snapshot" to demonstrate one of GTK4 coolest feature.

"Dialog" and "Message Dialogs" to demonstrate libadwaita 1.5 new responsive dialogs.

26 demos ported to Python
5 demos ported to Vala

#GNOME #GTK #development #Linux #Python #Rust

Is this Python diagnostics coming to Workbench 46 ?

Why yes it is!

Collaborative effort with @janvhs and @capypara 🙌

We are using pylsp and Ruff.

I'm also very excited to share that all 100+ demos have been ported to Python. Thanks to all contributors!

#Python #gtk #pygobject #development #GNOME

We’re happy to announce the release of K-9 Mail 6.800! The main goal of this version is to make it easier for you to add your email accounts to the app by integrating Thunderbird’s autoconfig feature.

With another item crossed off the list, this brings us one step closer towards Thunderbird for Android! Read the details and how to get it at our blog:

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/03/towards-thunderbird-for-android-k-9-mail-6-800-simplifies-adding-email-accounts/

#Android #Development #Thunderbird #OpenSource

Towards Thunderbird for Android – K-9 Mail 6.800 Simplifies Adding Email Accounts

With the addition of Thunderbird's account Autoconfig feature, K9-Mail 6.800 brings us one step closer to Thunderbird for Android.

^{cketti (The Thunderbird Blog)}

GNOME 46 runtime and sdk are back and available on Flathub beta

Just in time for testing your apps over the weekend !

```
flatpak install flathub-beta org.gnome.Sdk//46beta org.gnome.Platform//46beta
```

See https://discourse.flathub.org/t/how-to-use-flathub-beta/2111

Thanks @alatiera !

#GNOME #GTK #Flatpak #Flathub #development

How to use flathub-beta

In addition to the existing stable repository Flathub offers a repository for beta builds. This isn’t meant to be used for nightly builds, but for releases that has some level of testing and are expected to mostly work and be usable to non-developer …

^{Flathub Discourse}

As promised, our monthly development digest is here! And there are some brief but BIG updates in this one 👀

✅ Thunderbird Sync Update
✅ Taking ownership of the Thunderbird Snap
✅ ThunderCell repo for tracking Rust + Exchange progress

Read Alex’s update here:
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/02/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-february-2024/

#Thunderbird #Development #Exchange #Rust #Snap

Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest: February 2024

In this month's Development Digest, Alex shares exciting news about Thunderbird Sync, Exchange support, and the Thunderbird Snap on Linux.

^{Alessandro Castellani (The Thunderbird Blog)}

We know many of you used the "Manually Sort Folders" Add-on in Thunderbird, and are frustrated that it's not compatible with Thunderbird 115. But we do have a positive takeaway to share:

While the developer has decided to discontinue the Add-on, they are working on a patch to make it part of Thunderbird's core functionality!

As always we'll do our best to keep you posted. Thanks!

~Jason

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Development

#FluffyChat v1.18.0 has been released 🥳

FluffyChat v1.18.0 adds some new features, fixes a lot of bugs and improves the notifications on Android by showing them in a conversations style. Voice messages got the ability to change the play speed and the status header is now optional.

Read more at: https://ko-fi.com/post/FluffyChat-v1-18-0-has-been-released-R6R3UWBFA

#matrix #flutter #development

FluffyChat v1.18.0 has been released 🥳

Krille-chan published a post on Ko-fi

^Ko-fi

#LifeHack

Do the dishes while tests are running

#development #programming

GNOME sdk/platform 46beta is available on Flathub

Time to update manifests, dependencies, and test 🧪

Things I am most excited about for developers:

• libadwaita adaptive dialogs
• GLib/Gio docs in Biblioteca
• WebP image support
• GtkAccessibleText
• Accessible WebKitGTK
• libmanette Gamepads API

#GNOME #GTK #development #Flatpak #Flathub

Every month our mobile developers (cketti and Wolf) write a detailed progress report showing what's been completed on our journey from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android.

In January most of our work went into polishing the user interface and user experience of the new and improved account setup. However, there was still one feature missing that we really wanted to get in there...

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/02/thunderbird-for-android-k-9-mail-january-2024-progress-report/

#Thunderbird #Android #Development

Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail: January 2024 Progress Report

A new year, a new progress report! Learn what we did in January on our journey to transform K-9 Mail into Thunderbird for Android.

^{cketti (The Thunderbird Blog)}

If Thunderbird was a cake, then its Add-ons would be the amazingly delicious frosting on top! Join the Thunderbird Team on February 22 at 18:00 UTC as we chat with Sr. Software Engineer John Bieling about Add-on development and how you can help out!

Find out how to join and more about our office hours here: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/02/february-2024-thunderbird-office-hours-add-ons/

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Development

February 2024 Community Office Hours: All About Add-Ons!

Sr. Software Engineer John Bieling joins us to talk about Thunderbird Add-ons in the February Thunderbird Community Office Hours! Learn about what they can do and how to get involved.

^{Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)}

Alright I think I'm finally happy with the Workbench 46 demo for AdwDialog 🛠️

It's such a cool primitive for building adaptive apps. I hope the blob cat will make some people smile 😄

#GNOME #GTK #libadwaita #Linux #development

Dedicated to @alice and @tbernard 🎁

Yey GNOME SDK 46 will have an API for gamepads ❤️ 🎮

Thanks @alice for the fix

Thanks @halfmexican for this Workbench demo I could test it with

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/merge_requests/2662

#GNOME #development #GTK #Flatpak #Linux

So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punched paper tape.

"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."

https://chsi.harvard.edu/harvard-ibm-mark-1-language

#til #computers #development #language #history

One trick to make your life much better as a maintainer and help contributors

Have a Makefile directive to run everything that runs on CI

`make x` is all it should take to verify the changes pass automated tests

Linter, formatter, sorter, unit tests, etc

If tooling is needed then add a `make setup` directive that takes care of installing it

#offlinefirst #ci #development #git #GitHub #GitLab #Codeberg #dx #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #developerExperience #developer

Workbench 45.4 is out 🛠️

https://flathub.org/apps/re.sonny.Workbench

• Restore on-disk projects on start
• Restore scroll and cursor positions on format and Run
• Add "Copy" and "Select All" to Console
• Add Vala formatter support
• Add WebP image format support
• Library: Add "Context Menu" demo
• Library: Add "HTTP Server" demo
• Library: 12 demos ported to Python, 4 to Vala and 2 to Rust

Happy hacking / learning / prototyping

#Linux #development #GTK #GNOME #libadwaita #Rust #JavaScript #Python #Vala

Workbench | Flathub

Learn and prototype with GNOME technologies

^{Flathub - Apps for Linux}

We've got the latest updates on Thunderbird for Android/K-9 Mail in the October report! Learn what's new in translations and how to get involved, check out our renamed Github organization, read our first architecture decision records, see what we learned at the 'Make Better E-mail' meeting, and of course, see what the community contributed and last month's releases. 💙 📰

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/11/thunderbird-for-android-k-9-mail-october-2023-progress-report/

#Thunderbird #K9 #Android #Development

Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail: October 2023 Progress Report

Documenting our decisions (like the switch to Kotlin), much love for our community of Thunderbird for Android translators, and more!

^{cketti (The Thunderbird Blog)}

It's Friday, Friday, gonna post Thunderbird for Android updates on Friday! 🎤 📱

Our September monthly report highlights recent developments, including account setup improvements, pesky bug fixes, and of course, our community contributions. And for an extra Friday feel, there's a bonus Canadian vacay pic! 🇨🇦📸

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/10/thunderbird-for-android-k-9-mail-september-2023-progress-report/

#Thunderbird #Android #Development #OpenSource

Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail: September 2023 Progress Report

Improvements to account setup, purging old code, OAuth 2.0 fixes for Yahoo and AOL, and more in our monthly Thunderbird for Android update.

^{cketti (The Thunderbird Blog)}

There is no Ublock Origin on the Thunderbird store, even though it and also the permissionless version work!

Firefox Translate will be huge, looking forward to that!

But whats also really bad is, that Thunderbird Conversations is broken (afaik) and there is no replacement, so having the thread just display below each other, including your replies

#Development #OpenSource #Thunderbird

- ublock preinstalled with *.zip and *.mov blacklist, as well as malware. Ads are irrelevant as you should just use
- sanitized HTML by default
- no javascript at all
- block all trackers
- install signature checker addon (forgot the name)
- reduce information your browser sends
- deactivate all unnecessary features, its a Mailclient based on a Browser, I am sure thats possible

#Development #OpenSource #Thunderbird

I would nove a "security mode" switch for Thunderbird. Like Arkenfox for Firefox, but with the difference that Thunderbird is not sponsored by Ads:

#Development #OpenSource #Thunderbird

Like the legend of the phoenix, we're resurrecting Mozilla Send, an end-to-end encrypted file share service, and bringing it under our wings as Thunderbird Send. In this clip from S1E5 of the ThunderCast, developer Chris Aquino gives us a sneak peek of the new - wait, old - er, reborn project!

Learn how #Thunderbird Send will help you overcome your file upload woes, respect your privacy, safeguard against abuse, and hopefully change your #email experience for the better.

#Development #Mozilla

And today we have more mock-ups and improvements to share with you!

Read our newest post from Elizabeth about changes coming to the Message Context menu, and give us your feedback on the mailing list:

https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/ux/T3d84faa372bf41a8-Mac77234279d64aba8f250c55/message-context-menu-updates

#Development #OpenSource #Thunderbird

This is @halfmexican; GNOME Outreachy student excited that their effort to make a modern and sandboxed Camera demo for Workbench has paid off 🛠️

Well done! 🎉

Thanks @philn and @slomo for your help!

#GNOME #Outreachy #development #students #GStreamer #PipeWire #Flatpak #freedesktop #libcamera #GTK