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Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by Macha »

smarkov wrote: post #34
nabogh wrote: post #6

I hope I can opt back into the more dense display that we currently have. Some other parts look quite nice however.

I really don't understand this. It already looks a little too clumped to me, what's the benefit to further putting things closer to one another? It's not like you're doing some kind of additive transformation and you need to quickly jump between lines, each email is its own thing and you can only read one at a time. If you need to find specific ones you can always categorize them or use the search functionality. I'm…

You can see entire subject lines when performing bulk operations like archiving email where you want to keep some that are still relevant in the inbox?

Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by rhaway84773 »

shanghaikid wrote: post #15

Just be curious why are people still using email client other than web based one? Gmail or outlook 365 is quite good, and I think most people will have one web browser opened always.

The interface won’t randomly be changed from under you every couple of years?

On a more serious note, am I using my desktop so very differently? The idea that a web app could even come close to competing with a native app for me simply doesn’t compute.

Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by PurpleRamen »

shanghaikid wrote: post #15

Just be curious why are people still using email client other than web based one? Gmail or outlook 365 is quite good, and I think most people will have one web browser opened always.

I use Thunderbird for work, for legal reasons (can't move sensitive data to the cloud) and also practical (no mix up of private mails and work). Additionally, Thunderbird has chat, which I use for our internal system.

Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by loufe »

This looks fantastic. I've been waiting for an open source and linux-compatible alternative to Mailbird for the desktop.

Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by shanghaikid »

shanghaikid wrote: post #15

Just be curious why are people still using email client other than web based one? Gmail or outlook 365 is quite good, and I think most people will have one web browser opened always.

By the way, before the internet 2.0, I quite love this client: becky: https://www.rimarts.co.jp/becky.htm, so much faster than thunderbird.

Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by creshal »

> More than just a refreshed set of graphics, Supernova introduces beautiful icons with a more consistent visual style unique to Thunderbird. Our new designs remain sharp and pixel-perfect at any density setting.

Translation: We break with the established platform look&feel to follow the brave trend of replacing easily identified colourful icons with vague monochrome silhouettes.

Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by diarrhea »

Putting the search bar front-and-center in both the application and this announcement, I hope the backend implementation is now able to keep up?

The one use case I switch to my mail provider's webmail UI for is search. I mentally sigh a little bit each time I realise I have to search through my email. Thunderbird's search has been among the worst I have ever come across, sadly. Functional search would be a killer feature. As it's running locally, heck, give me regex. Trivial to implement and would be a huge improvement already.

Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by NoboruWataya »

rhaway84773 wrote: post #49
pshirshov wrote: post #23

> unified folders Actually that's the worst anti-feature for an email client.

Lots of people find unified folders extremely useful. They’re completely pointless for me, because different email accounts represent different contexts for me. But there’s a lot of people who’ve created a gmail account, a hotmail account, have a their ISP account, etc for no particular reason other than the fact that they created an account when these services came by. A unified folder is extremely useful for such p…

I find them very useful as long as there is a way to make it immediately obvious which account a particular email is connected to (like FairEmail does, for example).

Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by thiht »

shanghaikid wrote: post #15

Just be curious why are people still using email client other than web based one? Gmail or outlook 365 is quite good, and I think most people will have one web browser opened always.

I have multiple mailboxes, not all in Gmail, and I want a unified way to read and write my emails.

Also a local copy of the emails is nice to have.

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