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The Thunderbird Redesign Survey

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 18 2018, @12:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the now-with-ponies dept.

canopic jug writes:

Mozilla is asking for feedback about Thunderbird and threatening a redesign. Thunderbird is the most feature-rich of the GUI mail clients, but as a result also has a lot of cruft. The goal of the survey is to learn what Thunderbird users think about the current design, what are the biggest drawbacks, what potential changes should there be, and so on. The claim is that the information will be considered before any actual changes are made to the program itself.

See also Bryan Lunduke's interview with newly fledged Thunderbird developer Ryan Sypes about future directions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BQugHIccTI

So if you rely on Thunderbird for any part of your work flow, speak up now before it ends up unusable trash like M$ Outlook or Apple Mail.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @12:46AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @12:46AM (#623933)

    Outlooks flow works decently. Apple, gmail, outlook.com. Now THOSE are a pain in the ass to use.

    They basically have eudoras. Which is alright. But kinda of meh and seems lacking. I knew that was true when QCOM basically told everyone to stop using it. It is fine to use if you know how. But it has a early 90s application learning curve.

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  • (Score: 2) by drussell on Thursday January 18 2018, @12:51AM (2 children)

    by drussell (2678) on Thursday January 18 2018, @12:51AM (#623935) Journal

    I liked Eudora

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @12:58AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @12:58AM (#623938)

      Yes but it suffers from high information density.
      I prefer low information density, acres of whitespace, and I love scrolling. Ideally there should be nothing but a picture of a businessman on the phone above-the-fold.

      In case you can't tell I am being sarcastic. No more apples in the vending machine please!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:07AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:07AM (#624056)

        I love whitespace and large, I mean LARGE icons with tiny skeletal graphics inside that all look like rectangles. Spread them around the screen - cancel in the top right, save in the bottom left, make me scroll baby! Use an arrow for save and undo and back and return to previous list. Four buttons max. Anything else is a key combination - I'll get it eventually.

        It's modern, sleek, abstract and challenges my preconceptions. It's art but functional, a new kind of art for the 21st century. Makes me happy and makes me sad. Can't be captured by my primitive notions.