Plugins

Check out astroid-plugins/official-examples, for instance: ThreadViewExamplePlugin/tagformat.py and the method format_tags. Put this folder in .config/astroid/plugins/ and run astroid through the wrapper script: examples/astroid (to make sure GI_TYPELIB_PATH is set when you do not install astroid).

Documentation:

General

The environment variable ASTROID_CONFIG will be set by astroid, it points to the configuration file usually located in: ~/.config/astroid/config.

AstroidActivatable

Functions

string user_agent = get_user_agent ()

string mid = generate_mid ()

GStream *mail = process(const char* fileName)

Allows to perform arbitrary preprocessing operations on an email message before it is passed to Astroid. Only messages which are displayed are processed, meaning that messages that are composed or attached are not processed.

ThreadViewActivatable

Objects

thread_view: GtkBox where the main TreeView is a child. web_view: A WebKitWebView

Functions

string uri = get_avatar_uri (string email, GMime.Message message)

make sure the uri (or the first part of it) is returned in get_allowed_uris()

[list of strings] allowed_uris = get_allowed_uris ()

string html_markup = format_tags (string background_color, [list of strings] tags, bool selected)

See documentation for ThreadIndex::format_tags plugin.

ThreadIndexActivatable

Objects

thread_index : GtkBox where the main TreeView is a child.

Functions

string pango_markup = format_tags (string background_color, [list of strings] tags, bool selected)

This can be used to format tags just like you want: #139. background_color: (e.g. #ffffff) the color of the background the tag is rendered on (typically used for calculating luminosity when using alpha values)