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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, Touché) by black6host on Thursday January 18 2018, @01:29AM (2 children)

    by black6host (3827) on Thursday January 18 2018, @01:29AM (#623950) Journal

    You may be right regarding the massive fuckup. Here's what I'd be concerned about: Does the cruft they speak of include functionality of any sort? The reason I ask this is because, as a developer for many years and a user of other's work, I discovered that the functionality I thought I was providing was not necessarily how it was actually used. Users will figure out all kinds of ways to abuse your program to make it conform to their will :) So, as a developer, you might think that a feature should be deprecated and then removed but that really fucks up one, or more, of your users who are using your software in ways you couldn't think of.

    I may have relegated a feature to an obscure menu but I made sure it remained for those few who used it and built their workflow around it.

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  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Thursday January 18 2018, @01:35AM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday January 18 2018, @01:35AM (#623953) Journal

    I may have relegated a feature to an obscure menu but I made sure it remained for those few who used it and built their workflow around it.

    We need a "Good Citzen" mod, I think.

    In lieu of that, I modded you Touche' for this:

    Users will figure out all kinds of ways to abuse your program to make it conform to their will :)

    OMG is this ever a stone truth. I made parts of the UI of my SDR app configurable. Users send me screenshots for various reasons. Some of them make me want to drink. Heavily. And I really don't drink. Much.

  • (Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Thursday January 18 2018, @01:34PM

    by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Thursday January 18 2018, @01:34PM (#624123)

    This is why Exchange still hasn't properly gotten rid of public folders. Try as they might, it keeps turning out users have all kinds of crazy uses for them that weren't anticipated, and the replacements still aren't quite adequate.