Show a badge on the toolbar button: the unique postings captured from mail and waiting for review #2

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opened 2026-10-01 07:21:56 +00:00 by tiagoagueda · 0 comments

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The list asks: "Make numbered badge next to the logo, with the number of unique job listings captured from emails and need review."

The skeleton sets no badge: src/background.js is empty, and it is where a badge belongs, since it has to be right with no window open. Thunderbird has action.setBadgeText for the toolbar button and messageDisplayAction.setBadgeText for the one on a message.

Where the number comes from

GET /api/v1/captures (the captures scope) lists exactly the captures waiting for review, as {items, count}. A capture that was reviewed leaves the list. Nothing in a row says which client sent it, so "captured from emails" cannot be read off the list.

What the extension should do

Count the postings waiting for review, once each ("unique"), by the rule postulo/postulo-chromium#5 settles for the browser extension: one per posting address. The function should be the same file, shared through shared.json.
Read the list on a timer and when the popup opens, and keep the last answer, as that issue describes. A timer needs the alarms permission, which test/manifest.test.mjs would have to allow.
Show the number on the toolbar button, "99+" above 99, and say it in words in the tooltip.
With Postulo unreachable, keep the last number.

Decisions

"From emails". (a) Only the captures this extension sent, by remembering their ids and counting the ones still in Postulo's list: what the words say, but a capture made from another Thunderbird profile is not counted. (b) Every capture waiting for review, whichever client sent it: the same number the browser extension shows. Recommended: (a), with the popup's list (#4) able to show the others.
Which button. Recommended: the toolbar button only. The button on a message is about that message.
Captures kept in Thunderbird and not yet sent, once #1 keeps any. Recommended: counted, as the browser extension proposes.

Needs from the server

Not filed on postulo/postulo. A row of GET /captures naming the token that made it would let "from emails" be exact across profiles.

Done when

Two captures of one posting sent from this extension and waiting in Postulo show as 1; reviewing them clears the badge within the timer's period.
The number survives a restart of Thunderbird.
test/i18n.test.mjs requires every new key in every language the extension ships, with identical placeholders: three today, more once #7 lands.

From the list of Thunderbird extension improvements of 2026-09-30.

The list asks: "Make numbered badge next to the logo, with the number of unique job listings captured from emails and need review." The skeleton sets no badge: `src/background.js` is empty, and it is where a badge belongs, since it has to be right with no window open. Thunderbird has `action.setBadgeText` for the toolbar button and `messageDisplayAction.setBadgeText` for the one on a message. ## Where the number comes from `GET /api/v1/captures` (the `captures` scope) lists exactly the captures waiting for review, as `{items, count}`. A capture that was reviewed leaves the list. Nothing in a row says which client sent it, so "captured from emails" cannot be read off the list. ## What the extension should do - Count the postings waiting for review, once each ("unique"), by the rule postulo/postulo-chromium#5 settles for the browser extension: one per posting address. The function should be the same file, shared through `shared.json`. - Read the list on a timer and when the popup opens, and keep the last answer, as that issue describes. A timer needs the `alarms` permission, which `test/manifest.test.mjs` would have to allow. - Show the number on the toolbar button, "99+" above 99, and say it in words in the tooltip. - With Postulo unreachable, keep the last number. ## Decisions - **"From emails".** (a) Only the captures this extension sent, by remembering their ids and counting the ones still in Postulo's list: what the words say, but a capture made from another Thunderbird profile is not counted. (b) Every capture waiting for review, whichever client sent it: the same number the browser extension shows. Recommended: (a), with the popup's list (#4) able to show the others. - **Which button.** Recommended: the toolbar button only. The button on a message is about that message. - **Captures kept in Thunderbird and not yet sent**, once #1 keeps any. Recommended: counted, as the browser extension proposes. ## Needs from the server Not filed on postulo/postulo. A row of `GET /captures` naming the token that made it would let "from emails" be exact across profiles. ## Done when - Two captures of one posting sent from this extension and waiting in Postulo show as 1; reviewing them clears the badge within the timer's period. - The number survives a restart of Thunderbird. - `test/i18n.test.mjs` requires every new key in every language the extension ships, with identical placeholders: three today, more once #7 lands. From the list of Thunderbird extension improvements of 2026-09-30.

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List the captures that need review in the popup #4

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Capture a posting from the message on screen and send it to Postulo for review #1