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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: 5, Insightful) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday January 18 2018, @04:20PM (1 child)

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Thursday January 18 2018, @04:20PM (#624185) Journal

    We need Chinese walls between mobile and desktop designers, and having touched an iphone EVER disqualifies you from doing desktop UI design.

    Have any of you checked out the actual "survey"? I mean for the love of all that is Holy! I'm not seeing any options for "leave it the fuck alone", but instead questions asking if the current interface looks "professional" and better yet, whether or not it's "inspiring"?? OMFG...I'm already 99% sure that a palemoon-like fork will be needed at some point. What a bunch of self important ass-hats.

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  • (Score: 2) by dry on Thursday January 18 2018, @06:41PM

    by dry (223) on Thursday January 18 2018, @06:41PM (#624283) Journal

    There already is a PaleMoon style fork of Thunderbird. Hmm, seems to have been discontinued due to lack of time, funds and users. I'd guess it could be brought back to life.
    https://www.fossamail.org/ [fossamail.org]