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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) by TheRaven on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:33PM (4 children)

    by TheRaven (270) on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:33PM (#624140) Journal
    How would you design a UI that handles all of the cases well. The common cases are:
    • Same credentials, but different server name for IMAP / SMTP (most ISP-provided email).
    • Same credentials for IMAP and SMTP, same server, but more outgoing accounts than incoming.
    • Completely different IMAP and SMTP accounts.

    Make sure that, in your design, you allow other common use cases for the settings, such as someone who initially set up a POP3 account to move it to an IMAP4 account without redoing the entire config process.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Lester on Thursday January 18 2018, @03:34PM (3 children)

    by Lester (6231) on Thursday January 18 2018, @03:34PM (#624166) Journal

    Create email account
    advanced -> create only outgoing account

    Create email account
        ingoing data
            Button (copy ingoing data from other account)
        SMTP
            checkbox (Use same credendials as IMAP)
            button (copy SMTP data from other account)

    And when you create a new account, the proposed data should a guess check other the configured accounts.

    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:01PM (2 children)

      by TheRaven (270) on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:01PM (#624208) Journal
      Please read the rest of the thread (including your last post in this thread!). Thunderbird already does almost exactly what you describe for creating accounts. We are now talking about the UI for modifying accounts.
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      • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday January 18 2018, @06:31PM (1 child)

        by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 18 2018, @06:31PM (#624273) Journal

        Why can't it use a similar UI and methodology for modifying accounts?

        • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday January 22 2018, @12:05PM

          by TheRaven (270) on Monday January 22 2018, @12:05PM (#626039) Journal
          So tell me how it would work. At the moment, I have a config for SMTP accounts and a config for POP3/IMAP4 accounts. What use case would I want to modify both together and how would you make that work without breaking the (common, though less common) case where an account of one type doesn't have a directly linked account of the other type?
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