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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @10:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @10:27AM (#624085)

    I replied to the survey. Most questions were meaningless (i.e., how inspiring I find the UI), clearly designed to "prove" that the current interface is bad, and their proposed interface is great. For all those meanigless questions, I graded Thunderbird with 7 (top mark) and the proposed new interface with 1. In the additional comments section, I explained that I did this because they should not fall victim to the current trend, which is to make UIs ugly, with reduced usability, and that they should focus on maintaining the code, instead.

    Just as the first question, that a prospective lion tamer is asked, is not whether he has a hat saying "lion tamer", my first concern about the future of Thunderbird is not whether its UI will be changed.