When I specify a path to a folder that contains Cyrillic characters, the application does not understand it.
Older versions did not have this problem.
Example:
https://s.2226.ru/30119_11062207.jpg
https://s.2226.ru/30211_11062254.jpg

i am trying to test 3.0 now
Thanderbird 78.4.0 portable

Is it possible to fix this?

in general TB settings, the color is adjusted ok
wrong color also if we manually set xnote tag, e.g. pressing 6 in test TB

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TB 78.5.1
XNote 3.1.3
macOS 11.0

After relaunching Thunderbird, the XNote column always resets to its minimum size - that is, the width of XNote icon in the column header. It doesn't preserve the column width set by the user while working in TB.

and then, it is truely gone

add note position to settings dialog

Current settings dialogue still show up under menu "Tools - Add-on settings - XNote++". The newer mechanism to implement options is to show them directly in the add-ons page. We should migrate at some point in time because user's will miss the settings if they are not in the expected place.

When making this transition, the storage mechanism for preferences could be made compatible with standard WebExtension mechanism as well including a migration functionality to migrate the old settings.

Resources:

• Implement a settings page
• I18n library for string translations

currently, the button displays the note but cannot hide it

When I browse to the addon inside thunderbird and click on permissions it says
This add-on can

• Access browser tabs
  But when I click on "add to thunderbird" it says

Add Xnote++?
It requires permission to

• Have full, unrestricted access to Thunderbird and your computer

Which sounds very scary.

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• Starting with version 2.2.1, you can configure the storage path for your notes. By default, notes are stored in the "XNote" folder in your Thunderbird profile directory. In order to access the notes on a different computer or to share them with other users, configure the storage path to a mounted network drive, e.g., using WebDAV, Windows Share / Samba, or NFS. Beware that this might have a negative impact on the performance of the message list (scrolling) due to the network latency and the way how the XNote column is implemented. Another solution is to save the notes in a Dropbox folder.
  In order to change the storage location, use the advanced configuration editor (Tools – Options – Advanced – General – Config Editor...) to add the property "xnote.storage_path" (right mouse click – "New → String") and configure it with your desired path. If you already had some notes, don't forget to move them to the new location.

• Similar to the previous option, you can store your whole Thunderbird profile on a shared network drive (requires appropriate configuration of "profiles.ini" in your Thunderbird user directory). Beware that this might have a big performance impact – depending on your network and the amount of data stored in your profile directory.

• Another suggested option is to use some custom X-... header to store the note in the message header (it was reported that MailTags for Apple Mail does that). If the note is stored in the e-mail header, it needs to be defined whether the note is also forwarded as a message header to the recipient. This could be made an optional behaviour (checkbox) for forwarding e-mails. This will most likely not be implemented—unless someone contributes the necessary code.

This has become an issue with TB 78 as earlier TB had to be restarted anyway to get XNote++ working, but now triggers the installation right away.

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"Could you pls design a "hotkey" for adding the note more quickly? For example, when I want to add a note on a message, I can select the message and press "x(or other hotkeys)" to quickly add a note."

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that is easy if tag is set - just use general search. Add display of notes in that window.

Or: use a Gloda search/tab to do the same from code, by context menu or button

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If you use the keyboard to scroll through the message list (cursor up/down) and you reach a message with a note, the XNote window grabs the focus. After this, scrolling is no longer possible until you click on the message list again to give back the focus.

Known workaround: You can disable the automatic popup of the XNote window in the option pane by deselecting "Show note on message selection". After this, you have to manually open a note if you want to see it.

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Arie Verhagen:
This may be too small an issue to be addressed, but it would work much faster if the Xnote toolbar button could be added to the MESSAGE toolbar. As far as I could figure out, it can now only be an element of the (general) email toolbar.

I guess XNote updated, but I am clueless as to where the icon went, and there is no longer a way to add a note. In fact, all the previous notes that I had added are no longer showing up. I don't even know where to start looking to see what might be going on. All I know is that it is installed and acting as if it is NOT installed.

to explain functioning and some of the workarounds

After Update 3.1 Xnote lost the path information.
When I go to settings, the path is set to [ProfD]XNote and cannot be set. Neither by entering a path manually nor by clicking the systems select button.

Manually setting it, using document.getElementById('storage.path').value = '/Users/myusername/mypath; works.

After manually setting the path, i can use the systems select button again.

it would be nice to have a view with all messages with notes.

Workaround: If (!) notes are tagged, general search allows to search for tagged messages. Add capability to display the notes in the search result window.

Just to keep track of this idea: having the possibility to format the text in a note might be a nice option, but it seems this would also require quite some work for an unknown benefit.

In the port to TB78, the solution to show the toolbar button is not a final solution as it adds the button hard-coded, not fully integrated into the toolbar mechanism. This should be changed so that it becomes a button like all the others again.

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This was introduced by some Thunderbird version < 35 and I assume it to be a bug in Thunderbird's dialogue movement handling. If this happens, the note's position can be reset to the default location using the context menu in the message list.

due to redesign of toolbars

that should/must be done manually now.

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In principle, this would be possible, although currently not practicable – anyone willing to contribute this?

If you are in urgent need for this, open your Thunderbird profile directory (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird), look for the folder called "XNote" and use a simple file search to look for the file containing the text.The notes can be viewed in a text editor (see question below). If you want to see the corresponding message, use the Thunderbird e-mail search to search, select "Customize..." to add a "Message-ID" header and search within this field for the message ID – the file name of the note without the ".xnote" extension.

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Workaround: Delete the XNote before deleting an e-mail.

one of the two has a bug
our function call is sent to qFi: Uncaught TypeError: contextWin.quickFilters.ToggleMessageTag is not a function

error consiole: toolboxDocument.persist is not a function xnote-overlay.js:314

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Feature request of a user:

Make it possible to see the XNote icon in the column in a collapsed thread, indicating that one or more XNote exists within in the thread?

I use the threaded view. Thunderbird Menu --> View --> Sort by --> Threaded

To compare, this functionality can be seen with Tags. For example: If a thread has 10 emails, and the 7th email is tagged "Important" and the Tag is Red, then the collapsed thread becomes red; when expanded, only the tagged email is red.

I notice that when the thread is collapsed, it turns yellow momentarily.

sometimes they come up, sometimes TB starts and no icon is shown. Change folder and then display original folder displays icon, so we might need an message pane refresh if exists

advantage: button is visible when msg in tab and when msg in window

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XNote depends on the presence of a messageId for assigning notes to e-mails. Therefore, the creation of notes for messages without a messageId should be prevented. Regarding user experience it would probably be the best not to disable the items for creation of the note (button, context menu), but to show an error instead so that the reason is known. Otherwise, this might lead to bug reports asking why it's not possible to add note to certain e-mails.

It seems, messages without a messageId are a rare case and this item is therefore of low priority

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Hartmut Grosser:

Versions:
XNote = 2.3.1
Thunderbird = 68.4.1 (both on Windows and Ubuntu)
OS = Windows 7 (32-bit) and Linux Ubuntu 18.04 (64-bit)

1. Select in Thunderbird a mail, where a XNote has been added, so that
   this XNote is displayed.
   Exit Thunderbird via the "X" in it's upper right corner or via keys ALT+F4.
   Result: after Thunderbird has exited, the XNote-Dialog is still
   displayed on the desktop (see attached screenshot1.png).
   OS: this bug occurs only on Ubuntu, not on Windows.
   Screenshot illustrating the problem: https://bugs.froihofer.net/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=5

2. Select in Thunderbird a mail, where a XNote has been added, so that
   this XNote is displayed.
   Exit Thunderbird via Menu File / Exit or via keys STRG+Q (STRG+Q is only
   available on Ubuntu).
   Result: the error does NOT occur (the XNote-Dialog is closed, before
   Thunderbird exits).
   OS: same behaviour on Ubuntu and Windows.

3. Select in Thunderbird a mail, where a XNote has been added, so that
   this XNote is displayed.
   Now start Thunderbird-menu Help / Troubleshooting Information.
   Result: the XNote-Dialog is still displayed over the Troubleshooting
   Informations (see attached screenshot2.png).
   OS: this bug occurs on Ubuntu AND on Windows.
   Screenshot illustrating the problem: https://bugs.froihofer.net/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=6

As requested, I repeated my tests with a new Thunderbird profile. The
results were the same.

shift+F10 - e (in German) should create a new note for the selected message. Doing the same by mouse works.

Doing by keyboard, it jumps to edit the xnote of the last message in the messagelist. (being the last message may be by accident, in any case, it does not open a new empty note for the message that is selected

we might want that?

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and width/height seem to be interchanged

it takes a few s to show.
Onhover, it shows immediately.
Somewhere in treeview or one of the other nsITree classes, there is an invalidate for the row. mabe that helps

Although this is possible to change the font size of the notes through userChrome.css, this requires quite some technical skills.

something changed for context menus?

the variable still exists

the header or footer line could have mini buttons: small/medium/large/custom, to set standard note size.

Then, I would not always need to enlarge by mouse.

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Some people have reported that the XNote toolbar button and/or the XNote column is missing after an upgrade to Thunderbird 68. If that happens, it cannot be added through the toolbar customization dialogue as it does not show up there as well.

Problem is intermittent - sometimes it works just fine, sometimes this problem appears. If it appears, a workaround is to use the context menu through a right mouse click in the message list.

What also seems to work, is to uninstall XNote and reinstall it after it completely disappeared from the add-ons dialogue. However, for some, this did not solve the problem permanently.

maybe put some instructions into the wiki on this github project or elsewhere.

Like: keyboard operation, or listview by searching for tags. Both are not obvious to find.

In the current state of the updates for TB78, the first x characters are not shown in the XNote column. The issue is that the getCellText function is never called while getImageSrc is still called. Therefore, the icon is shown while there is no text. This would indicate that it might as well be a Thunderbird bug - at least some changed behaviour for TB78 that needs to be sorted out.