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

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: 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.