There's more! On my machine it creates an empty ~/.mozilla/extensions directory every time it starts, and I have no idea why it does that or how to make it stop.
Thunderbird Littering My Home
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#22Try Betterbird. On the whole I find that fork a better experience than Thunderbird.
What's better for you?
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#23Is there any hope that Thunderbird might benefit from XDG config directories fix that Firefox recently implemented?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shift+Enter for a normal new line. No idea why it's like this.
If my understanding is correct, enter by default starts a new paragraph ( … in HTML). Holding shift makes it add a line break ( in HTML). I think maybe Thunderbird has a plain text mode where this doesn’t happen, but it’s been a while since I last used it, so I could be completely wrong.
Ah that would make sense I suppose as it's sending HTML by default.
It does have a plain text mode!
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shift+Enter for a normal new line. No idea why it's like this.
If my understanding is correct, enter by default starts a new paragraph ( … in HTML). Holding shift makes it add a line break ( in HTML). I think maybe Thunderbird has a plain text mode where this doesn’t happen, but it’s been a while since I last used it, so I could be completely wrong.
Thunderbird does have a plain text mode, and you set it to be the default. Nice thing about TB is that defaulting to plain text doesn't lock you into plain text like a lot of other editors out there--If you add any formatting it silently switches you to HTML email.
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#26Another unit that requires mental load.
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#27There are so many annoyances in TB. I stopped using it after a few days. My primary concerns: - Opening an email thread opens multiple (potentially many) tabs, and is difficult to nagivate or understand the flow of messages - I don't know how to write an email without it making the spacing between paragraphs/lines larger than I would like. (I.e. double-spacing) - Search is unreliable / broken.
Shift+Enter for a normal new line. No idea why it's like this.
The default paragraph style has some margin.
- You can do Shift+Enter to get a `br` without breaking the paragraph. - You can change the format from "Paragraph" to "Body Text" to remove the margin. Note that Thunderbird changes new lines back to "Paragraph" automatically, so you need to frist write your email, then format it as "Body Text". - Or, you can disable the "Use Paragraph format instead of Body text by default" option in the settings, to always have "Body text".
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#28I've long given up on keeping a clean home folder because so many software do this and keeping it clean is a constant chore. Now I just make a real_home folder in my 'home' and put all my actual stuff there. They can use the ~ landfill
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#29I've long given up on keeping a clean home folder because so many software do this and keeping it clean is a constant chore. Now I just make a real_home folder in my 'home' and put all my actual stuff there. They can use the ~ landfill
I stopped using that software no matter how painful it was some games included. I wanted to play BG2 and the remake from GOG just litter the Documents folder even when running though Wine. Well, no game for then. Pity. I want my computer to serve me and to have my own files where yo want them.
Unfortunately, many applications now treat your filesystem as a dumping ground for their dependencies and caches and config files and temporary data and all kinds of other non-userdata trash they create. This ship has long since sailed :(
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shift+Enter for a normal new line. No idea why it's like this.
The default paragraph style has some margin. - You can do Shift+Enter to get a `br` without breaking the paragraph. - You can change the format from "Paragraph" to "Body Text" to remove the margin. Note that Thunderbird changes new lines back to "Paragraph" automatically, so you need to frist write your email, then format it as "Body Text". - Or, you can disable the "Use Paragraph format instead of Body text by defau…
Good to know.
I've always wondered why HTML editors tend to work this way (Wordpress is the same), instead of having a single enter key be a line break and a double enter key be a paragraph.