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Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by LinuxBender »

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.

Just be curious why are people still using email client other than web based one?

So that my emails are truly mine. I pull them off the server straight away for anti-tampering and reducing attack exposure should the provider be compromised. I can then compress and backup my emails. If my provider should falter I can change providers and still have all my emails, even pushing any of them back up to the new server should I have such a need. The same logic applies for my contacts. When a web-only provider goes offline, so do all my emails and contacts which feels too much like corporate capture to me.

Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by jrm4 »

zvmaz wrote: post #116

The tone and level of entitlement of some comments is astonishing. Thunderbird is a free and open source tool, used by many (including me). The least we can do is to be a little nicer.

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Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by carlosjobim »

danpalmer wrote: post #136
jeffparsons wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fuzzy icons are because of how the image is scaled on the marketing site. If you load the image directly ( https://www.thunderbird.net/media/img/thunderbird/whatsnew/1... ) you'll see the icons in the UI are actually crisp.

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I installed it just for trying on my retina display, and all icons looked crisp. Are you sure you didn't get an older version, as this is beta?

Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by vorpalhex »

nerdponx wrote: post #159
danpalmer wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I like how you conveniently left out that you're using a retina display until maybe your fifth post complaining about this. It's possible that none of the developers can afford to buy a $2000 laptop for testing. If the icons are obviously fuzzy on your machine, grab a screenshot, post a bug on the bug tracker, and let it be. I assume also that you are already a substantial monthly donor. If not, then I think all this…

If you are gonna make a big announcement of how great your icons are and they are blurry on 20% of screens.. maybe the issue isn't with your users.

Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by diffeomorphism »

Brendinooo wrote: post #148

What am I missing here? I'm running "Version 102.11.0, first offered to channel users on May 10, 2023", and this is 13 versions ahead?

No it is exactly one version ahead, the number is just bigger by 13. Firefox ESR 102 is based on firefox non-esr 102 and ESR 115 is based on non-ESR 115. There are no ESR versions in between.

As an analogy think of fedora and red hat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Relat...

With that same scheme it would be red hat 6, 12, 19, 28, 34 instead of 5,6,7,8,9.

Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by keehun »

This might come off as quirky or weird but one of the things I miss the most about "iCal" (Calendar.app in macOS) is the infinite scroll (year, month, and week views). Fastmail's calendar has the infinite scroll on the month view, but not any other views.

I usually hate "infinite scroll" on say a timeline feed, but for calendar, it is exactly what I need as I very often move between months when I'm looking at my calendar.

Is there an extension in Firefox that'll bring the infinite scroll to calendar? Anything on the roadmap officially for that UX?

Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by dgellow »

guzik wrote: post #108
AnonC wrote: post #101

FYI, Thunderbird 115 is getting released tomorrow (July 11). Right now, if you visit the Thunderbird website [1] or try to look for updates within the application, you won't find this release version available (you can always get the beta release from the website). [1]: https://www.thunderbird.net/

I would advise against installing the beta for anyone considering it. I was in the beta for 2 years (mostly because it's quite challenging to get out of the beta), and the quality of the beta releases leaves a lot to be desired.

Thanks for mentioning this, I was literally in the process of switching to the beta channel to see this new UI!

Re: Thunderbird 115

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Post by jchw »

I'm sad that sync did not make it this iteration, but hopeful that it will next time. I love using Thunderbird again. I long switched off of dedicated e-mail clients and forgot what I was missing. I have had to retrain myself to not open a new tab when I'm expecting an email. Not to mention, browsing mailing list threads is impossibly better: it has a nice threaded view that you just can't get in any web interface I'm aware of. But proper sync would be nice to have, seriously. I would really like if it could sync account credentials, personally, since I have a decent number of machines and a handful of e-mail accounts, but even if it didn't it would still be useful to have some form of sync for preferences.

I'm sure some people don't like the redesign. Personally, I think it's alright: it is a bit more on the "modern" side in some regards, but it's still reasonably pleasing to use, and still not too white-space heavy, and that's all I really care about.

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