On 30 June 2015 at 17:22, Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
Am 30.06.2015 um 17:02 schrieb Ahmad Samir:
>
> IIUC, what's happening here is that they bundle the extension with
> Thunderbird 38 so it's installed and enabled by default; so when you
> create a new Thunderbird profile,
>
>
/usr/lib*/thunderbird/distribution/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}/
> will get copied to ~/.thunderbird/<PROFILE_NAME>/extensions; that also
> happens if you run 38.0.1 for the first time and didn't have the
> Lightning extension already installed (I was surprised to see the
> calendar pane in Thunderbird after updating to 38.0.1, since I didn't
> have that extension installed previously).
>
> Also (IIUC) Lightning will be updated in your profile, just like any
> other user-installed extension.
>
> So what you can do is just copy the dir from
> /usr/lib*/thunderbird/distribution/extensions and restart Thunderbird
> or re-install it from
addons.mozilla.org, I think either would lead to
> the same result
but that all makes zero sense
* i had lightning installed for many years as user extension
* i never used the rpm because it was always too late after TB updates
* now due start TB 38 it was updated
* it is still a user-extension in the profile
* if i uninstall it it's gone
* the files from the package still exists unused
the point is if it is now part of the TB package it should be present after
uninstall the extension in the user-profile becasue the state now is no
improvement at all and just wasting space for no gain
This is an upstream change; from this blog post[1] I gather that
upstream's intention is that Lightning is installed and enabled by
default when you use the upstream binary tarball; the same applies for
the distro-packaged version.
- This change doesn't affect the user if he already has Lightning installed
- With a new TB profile the user is presented with a notification
about the extension, and he can disable/remove it
- This is a one time "offer", so if the user uninstalls Lightning it
won't be auto-installed again for that TB profile
[1]
https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2015/06/thunderbird-38-released/
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Ahmad Samir