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> A few weeks ago, we conducted hour-long conversations with 10 of our users to dig deep into how you manage your preferences and configurations in Thunderbird desktop Is only 10 people representative of the population of thunderbird users?
(I jest!)
I want to use Thunderbird, but it's so... weird. And why can it not be minimized to tray? Am I supposed to sit and keep the Thunderbird window open at all times?
I want to use Thunderbird, but it's so... weird. And why can it not be minimized to tray? Am I supposed to sit and keep the Thunderbird window open at all times?
It's funny you should say that, because the next release apparently directly addresses this. Including startup to tray. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/close-tray-starting-154
From user feedback, I wonder if they've learned how to prevent Thunderbird from creating an empty "thunderbird" folder in my home directory yet.
If only there was a way to edit the source code, and recompile it yourself. Oh well, no software is perfect.
I would suggest they first "demystify the language" and "streamline information architecture" of the article itself.
Also some details would be nice. And some acknowledgement of an understanding that the UI being "dated" and not "modern" probably isn't what's making it difficult to use.
> A few weeks ago, we conducted hour-long conversations with 10 of our users to dig deep into how you manage your preferences and configurations in Thunderbird desktop Is only 10 people representative of the population of thunderbird users?
Fwiw, even just going through your software with one user can give quite a few insights about what's not obvious about it. That's not at all to say you never need more, but very few open source projects do user research in the first place, being passion projects that just scratch the developer's/s' itch. More samples is always better, definitely at n=10, but I'd also not dismiss the results and benefits of doing it!
Sample size is a very weird, often kinda counter-intuitive topic.
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If only there was a way to edit the source code, and recompile it yourself. Oh well, no software is perfect.
This is a good encapsulation of why the year of the Linux desktop is perpetually fifteen years away.
I'd like the Oauth authentication setting to work in the latest version. But that might just be me. I'd also like it to be possible to enter a U2F pin number when using Oauth because then I could actually use it with my company Yubikey.