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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: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:54AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:54AM (#624052) Journal

    What they should do is:

    • Leave the interface alone. Don't change it. Not even a little bit. Mozilla has proved that their interface changes are rarely an improvement, but frequently a disaster. So, keep away from the interface. Interface adaptions can still be done through extensions. Which gets me to the next point:
    • Don't break extensions. While unlike in Firefox, I have few extensions installed (yes, I didn't switch to the newest version of Firefox, so that I can keep my extensions; I'll keep that way as long as possible), I certainly would miss those few I have if they break.
    • Instead concentrate on fixing bugs. Yes, that's not sexy work. But it's the one thing that really helps your users.
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