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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, @02:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:05PM (#624127)

    Goodness yes! Alpine and Claws-Mail are what I use, except when I'm at work. HTML mail is an abomination. Perhaps we should have markdown or something if we need formatting. At least I can tell Seamonkey to ignore font and color styles--idiots don't realize I don't even see their cute purple 24pt Comic Sans text with their name in the cursive font like it's their handwritten signature or something. I'm otherwise stuck with Seamonkey at work because I need something to parse out the HTML and pages of x-mso-ermahgerd and x-mso-you-do-not-know-de-wae styles.

    For that matter, why is it impossible for HTML mail composers like Outlook to use only a few tags like <em> or <strong>, maybe a <ol> here or <ul> there?

    Agh, I already know the answer. Fucking sales and marketing idiots who don't even have the mental faculties to pass a middle school introductory algebra class! And they're proud of the fact that they're too intellectually deficient to handle middle school maths!