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Change the line back to label="&savedFiles.label ", zip, rename and replace and restart Thunderbird to make sure you did it correctly. remember how we said earlier that all strings live in the en-US folder? Well, 'My Saved Files' here is living in the messenger folder which is bad. You just made your first changes to the code.

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Now these lines should look like this this:Ĥ.) Zip the content in the 'omni' folder (not the omni folder itself) and rename the zip file to 'omni.ja' and use it to replace the old omni.ja you unzipped earlierĥ.) Start Thunderbird and notice your new label in the 'Tools' menu! (The original label has an "&" and a " " because it is an entity. For more information on various XUL elements, see MDN XUL Reference.ģ.) Change label="&savedFiles.label " to read value="My Saved Files". Open this file in your text-editor.Ī menuitem is an element in a menu. We're going to display a label above the list of folders that reads 'My Folder List.'ġ.) The main Thunderbird window lives in the mailWindowOverlay.xul file inside content/messenger.

Our first hack is going to be to add a bit of personalization to Thunderbird.

messenger-smime - files related to smime processing.

messenger - most front-end files for Thunderbird.

messagebody - contains a file used for printing the address book.

branding - Thunderbird specific branding materials.

Inside here you will find a content folder, with 4 sub-folders These define common widgets and other useful tools.

toolkit - the common files shared by all Mozilla toolkit applications (Firefox, Thunderbird).

pippki - certificate management related files.

newsblog - contains files specific to blog-reading (RSS).

messenger - this is where most of the XUL and JS files for Thunderbird are.

gloda - the files for the global search database.

When using another locale, you may see a different folder name.

en-US - these contain the strings used in the application, translated to English.

devtools - contains the developer tools, e.g.

comm - contains some of the core "communicator" files (you usually won't worry about these.).

classic - contains many of the css (style) and image files for the default theme.

chat - contains files for the instant messaging and social media component of Thunderbird.

The 'content' folder has the following subfolders:

modules - often used files which once imported share their properties with all context which have been imported to (set a property to 1 in context A and context B will see that value).

hyphenation - dictionaries used in compose context.

defaults - default values for preferences.

components - some often used files (in different contexts).

In the 'omni' folder, you find a variety of folders that create the front-end of the application. These have source files cached for faster loading and if you don't remove them, your changes to the real source files will be ignored by Thunderbird. Unzip the contents into a folder, let's say 'omni'.ģ.) In the 'omni' folder, delete the folders 'jsloader' and 'jssubloader'. Rename it to omni.zip if necessary to unzip it. Then close it.Ģ.) Inside the folder where you unzipped Thunderbird, open the 'omni.ja' file with the zip program. Time to make your first changes to the code.ġ.) If you haven't done so already, unzip your current nightly build of Thunderbird and make sure it runs properly.

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Windows users won't have all of these tools installed by default, but if you have followed the build instructions above, you have downloaded the required tools. Linux users will find most of these programs available by default with their distro.

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This editor will get you a better view of the code (i.e you will see which braces close which codeblocks, 'if','var' and so on will be bold, among other stuff). A viable freeware alternative for Windows is Notepad++.

Windows users must not use Windows' Notepad text-editor which doesn't show Linux linebreaks properly.

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A text-editor, who is capable of working with files created on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.

Most zip utilities are capable of working with.However, since building is a rather complicated process, you may wish to come back to it at a later stage. ( Instructions) If you can do this, you will (almost) automatically have all the right tools to begin hacking. Note: Some hackers have found it useful to simply begin by building Thunderbird from source. It's designed to be an introduction to submitting your first patch(es) to the Thunderbird codebase.īefore you can begin, you're going to need several tools setup on your computer. So, you think you might want to help out with Thunderbird? Great! What's that? You don't have any idea where to begin? Hopefully this document can help. 1 Beginner's Guide to Hacking Thunderbird.