Maëlan

About me

Developer Information
Name Maëlan
User since April 15, 2012
Number of add-ons developed 0 add-ons
Average rating of developer's add-ons Rated 4 out of 5 stars

My Reviews

Quick Folder Move

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

I had one feature wish (ignoring archive folders), and my wish was granted. So I’m updating my review now. :-)

I still have more (less important) feature wishes, so not perfect for me yet. https://addons.thunderbird.net/fr/thunderbird/addon/quick-folder-move/reviews/1162207/

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.9.0).  This user has a previous review of this add-on.

CompactHeader

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

This add-on is great, very handy for seeing more of the message in the split view (it only has a small glitch, i.e. occasionally headers are half-collapsed and you have to click on [±] to get back to a consistent state).

Is there any chance that it gets updated for Thunderbird 78? (I guess it’s harder to implement now with WebExtensions?)

Quick Folder Move

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Works as advertised, the interface and functionality looks perfect for me, to replace the “Quick Folder Key Navigation” addon. Thanks to it, I can already get rid of clumsy mouse movements, particularly the laggy drag-n-dropping of messages. However, there are two or three things that needs to be improved so that it really enables *quick* folder switching.

1. Currently, you cannot quickly type Shift+g, then a few letters from your target folder, then press Enter. This will do nothing, because you have to wait for the list of matching folders to be displayed, and for some reason this is slow. So you have to wait for a few seconds before pressing Enter… If listing results cannot be made faster, at least allow to type Enter ahead of time, so as to switch to the first result as soon as it is known.

2. I need the ability to blacklist folders (recursively). This is because I have archives, ie for most of my folders there is another of the same name in my Local Folders. These homonyms constantly get in the way of switching folders, as I essentially never want to jump in them.

3. Less vital improvement, but easier to implement: the search is already case-insensitive, it would be great to make it ignore diacritics as well.

With these improvements, the addon would be perfect for me.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.7.1). 

Lightning

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Monday, Feb 3, 2020 (or should I say “Monday 3 févr. 2020”): the language still breaks each time Thunderbird is updated. Deeply irritating.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (73.0b1).  This user has a previous review of this add-on.

Stop Ignoring Reply:To

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Please update this add-on for later versions of Thunderbird!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.3). 

Lightning

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Does the job, I guess. I’m not using too much.

It is a shame that synchronizing with a distant calendar goes through the ICAL format, which means *re-downloading all events since the beginning of time*, every minute or so. But this choice is probably imposed by available technology.

However, what is more annoying is its insistence on not using the user’s language. After each update, it falls back to English (or worse, a mixture of English and the user’s language, as in “Sunday 4th août”). After each update, to recover my own language, I have to overwrite the automatically updated add-on with the XPI downloaded using Firefox. And re-tell it that no, weeks definitely don’t start on Sundays.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (6.2.5).