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What’s New in Thunderbird 78

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Re: What’s New in Thunderbird 78

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post #23

Still no first-class calendar and contact sync with mobile and online services!?

Set up a radicale server and and the calendars sync just fine. Add the cardbook adding and contacts do too. I guess thats what you mean by not first class?

https://radicale.org/3.0.html

Re: What’s New in Thunderbird 78

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Many of these UI changes seem like backward steps. https://blog.thunderbird.net/files/2020/07/compose-compariso... Old: Clear that you can enter multiple "To" addresses. Obvious that the formatting buttons are buttons. New: Single-line "to" implies you can only enter one address. "Flat" buttons don't look like buttons. https://blog.thunderbird.net/files/2020/07/account-setup.png Extra white space makes the window nea…

Have you considered the SeaMonkey mail reader? It may be to your liking.

I know a few who swear by it

Re: What’s New in Thunderbird 78

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I'm a major fan. I self host email, contacts, calendar, and Thunderbird is essential in my workflow.

Only issue is that the task descriptions don't render HTML and with all the crazy zoom meeting invites it is ugly. HTML in caldav is not standard but I would like the option since its a thing these days.

Re: What’s New in Thunderbird 78

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To each their own but I find it hard to fathom using a non-cloud based email system. I regularly access my email from 7 computers.

By “non-cloud based email system” you mean anything that isn’t gmail via a web browser?

I regularly access my “non-cloud based email systems” from 8 different devices.

Re: What’s New in Thunderbird 78

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Many of these UI changes seem like backward steps. https://blog.thunderbird.net/files/2020/07/compose-compariso... Old: Clear that you can enter multiple "To" addresses. Obvious that the formatting buttons are buttons. New: Single-line "to" implies you can only enter one address. "Flat" buttons don't look like buttons. https://blog.thunderbird.net/files/2020/07/account-setup.png Extra white space makes the window nea…

"The compose window now also takes up less space with recipients listed in “pills” instead of an entire line for every address.."

Yup, already hate it. I much prefer not looking through a list of buttons on the To line for the one I want to remove. Additionally, I can instantly see if I'm sending and email to my coworkers company or personal address without some damn tag after his name.

Re: What’s New in Thunderbird 78

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Finally dark mode! Some Windows only add-ons could do it. But now Mac and Linux can too

Every time I hear about this recent "dark mode/light mode" fad I am reminded of a time when most software would use the OS's native and fully colour-customisable UI which let you have dark mode[1], light mode[2], rainbow mode[3], and everything in between[4], consistently across all applications with basically zero effort on the part of the application developers . What a pitiful regression it has been since then. [1…

Yeah, and X resources let us Linux nerds choose freely as well. This is what we get now that every application ships its own implementation of everything, including GUI toolkit.
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