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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: 5, Insightful) by frojack on Thursday January 18 2018, @01:05AM (4 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday January 18 2018, @01:05AM (#623940) Journal

    It took 10 years to get most of the bugs out and the interface stabilized to the point where it is usable, even if not fully intuitive.

    Just leave it the fuck alone for godsake.

    I doubt these guys are smart enough to add something make client side encryption automatic and easy without plugins.
    They can't even handle 2FA properly.

    So send those guys some beer tickets and a truck full dog food and 20 Rottweilers to guard the code.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday January 18 2018, @01:37AM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday January 18 2018, @01:37AM (#623954)

    > It took 10 years to get most of the bugs out and the interface stabilized

    Therefore running out of interesting bugs to fix, and not using $Fashionable_platform and $Marketable_new_language.

    If it ain't broken, and it ain't changing, it's great for users, not for programmers.

    • (Score: 2) by dry on Thursday January 18 2018, @06:31PM

      by dry (223) on Thursday January 18 2018, @06:31PM (#624272) Journal

      Well, with how few programmers that are working on Thunderbird, minimal change seems best.
      From lurking on various mailing lists and newsgroups, it seems that it is going to take all their programmers to just keep legacy add-ons working and/or migrate to the new add-on paradigm.

  • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Friday January 19 2018, @04:48AM (1 child)

    by darkfeline (1030) on Friday January 19 2018, @04:48AM (#624575) Homepage

    It's FOSS. No need to guard the code, just download a copy of the version you like and it will never change.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @02:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @02:10PM (#625149)

      Bitrot is a thing, and old versions are known to disappear.