"Yellow Sticker" Plugin -- any demand?
Juergen Nickelsen <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:48:22 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.squirrelmail.plugins |
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| Organization | FU Berlin |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Today I implemented a "yellow sticker" functionality for SquirrelMail in a plugin -- show some eye-catching text as a "yellow sticker" above the folder list *if* a certain file is present, using the text (HTML, actually) from that file. We have been using functionality like this for a while, mainly to notify our users of planned service outages and the like. The main idea is to make it easy to use by just putting a file with a text somewhere, and the contents is displayed; remove the file and the yellow sticker is gone. Automation via at(1) can make it appear and disappear without human intervention, if necessary. I had implemented a previous version by hacking the code directly into the SquirrelMail proper, but in between I have learned more about plugins and what you can do with them, so I put that code into a plugin I have written for some local things. Now I wonder -- do other people feel the need for such a functionality? I could extract the "yellow sticker" code to a separate, independent plugin, which then could be distributed or even put on the SquirrelMail website, if there is sufficient demand. If not, I wouldn't bother. See the attached screenshot for an example how this could look. Regards, Juergen. -- <[email protected]> Tel. +49.30.838-50740 Zentraleinrichtung fuer Datenverarbeitung, Central Systems (Unix) Freie Universitaet Berlin, Fabeckstrasse 32, 14195 Berlin, DE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 ----- squirrelmail-plugins mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: [email protected] List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.plugins List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-plugins
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