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[Code Example] How to add a custom toolbar button
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Description
Create a small tutorial with some snippets on how to generate and add a custom toolbarbutton to our main Toolbar.
This example is useful to showcase how a developer can generate custom elements to dynamically load and append in the Thunderbird UI.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Use the main Toolbar and custom toolbarbutton described in the issue as the entry points. Create a small tutorial with snippets showing how to generate a custom element and dynamically append it in the Thunderbird UI; done means the documented example clearly demonstrates that workflow.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100