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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:43AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:43AM (#623972)

    I think you may be correct that, as usual, the Gnomists* already have their unusable build with the flat look and silly defaults in the wings. As a formailty, before clicking 'commit' to CVS / GiT / whatever, they "run a user survey."
    At this moment, Thunderbird is working fine for me. They should please not try to 'modernize' it by screwing it up.

    * Gnomists, n.: a cult of early 21st century software developers whose mission was to introduce maximum unusability in applications they worked on. The cult seems to have originated from the Gnome 3 desktop developers. Fortunately for mankind, the cult were totally wiped out worldwide in the revolutions of the mid 2020's.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:55AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:55AM (#624033) Journal

    If they do this I'm going to use Sylpheed, Claws, or even learn Mutt/Pine instead.

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...