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[Stan Goodman]

On 08/04/2011 08:58 PM, Moish wrote:
> On 04/08/2011 18:52, Stan Goodman wrote:
>> On 08/04/2011 07:01 PM, Moish wrote:
>>
>>> Open the xpi file and change the max version in the rdf file.
>>
>> I've opened the xpi and rdf files. The relevant part of the latter is:
>>
>> *****
>> <em:targetApplication>
>> <Description>
>> <em:id>{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}</em:id>
>> <em:minVersion>2.0</em:minVersion>
>> <em:maxVersion>5.*</em:maxVersion>
>> </Description>
>> </em:targetApplication>
>> *****
>>
>> TB is v5.0. BiDi seems to allow even later releases (5.*), which should
>> be enough without change. But I've changed that to 5.9, and refreshed
>> the xpi file. I thought then to install the refurbished extension by
>> looking for the Install button under Tools, but it is no longer there
>> (because now TB knows how to install extensions from the Web, and
>> doesn't need it).
>>
>> How can I do this?
>>
>>
>
> TB-Tools-Addons-click the little cog wheel for "Install from a file"


I FOUND IT!! I FOUND IT!! Tiny, sitting all alone, inconspicuously, so 
as not to attract attention, with no label, and no indication about what 
kind of thing it is intended to do. The developer, indeed the whole 
Thundermug team NEEDS to read a book about how to make a user interface. 
Also a briefing by psychologists, to convince them that people who 
didn't participate in the design of the application don't know 
instinctively what they had in mind.

The result leaves a bit to be desired:
1) The promised two buttons for determining the justification direction 
are nowhere to be seen (yes, I have checked that box for displaying 
them). One can determine the direction only by opening the BiDi 
preferences and setting the direction there. An acceptable ad hoc 
workaround?

2) Not really. Setting the preferences doesn't take effect until one 
closes Thundermug and reopens it. Clumsy?

Starts to make Kmail2 + Akonadi sound better.

Thanks for your assistance, Moish...


-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel