Thunderbird Starts Working on Improving Its Interface

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Post by krln_g » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 5:19 PM UTC

Thunderbird Starts Working on Improving Its Interface
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Post by johnchristopher » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 6:18 PM UTC

Great. Can we have multiple lines per mail in the mail column or is that still not possible ? /rant

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Post by mwambua » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 6:22 PM UTC

Sounds awesome! I'm pretty happy with Thunderbird as is, but a modern interface potentially means more users... and hopefully as a result, a longer life.

Here's a quick link to the survey: https://thunderbird-design.typeform.com/to/f7wiiq?utm_referr...

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Post by JustSomeNobody » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 6:33 PM UTC

Why do they want it to look Slack-ish?

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Post by mrweasel » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 6:33 PM UTC

johnchristopher wrote: post #2

Great. Can we have multiple lines per mail in the mail column or is that still not possible ? /rant

What does that even mean? What mail column?

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Post by AndyMcConachie » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 6:40 PM UTC

Does anyone else feel that most UI redesigns are just change for the sake of change that don't actually make anything better?

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Post by cs702 » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

Former Thunderbird user here.

Much more important than shiny new UI, what I'd like to see is seamless out-of-the-box syncing with online calendars and contacts. (At one point, I tried all the available add-ons for syncing with Google's apps; none of those add-ons worked well for me.)

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Post by mrweasel » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 6:42 PM UTC

I get that it's the modern style, but would it be so terrible to add some colour? The left hand pane has colours, so why can't the buttons?

The menu buttons is really what make Thunderbird weird to me. The "write" button has a drop-down that say Message, Event, and Task... So write an event? They also never seems to line up, nor do they actually look like button. Sadly non of this is addressed in the presented design.

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Post by firebird84 » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 6:43 PM UTC

cs702 wrote: post #7

Former Thunderbird user here. Much more important than shiny new UI, what I'd like to see is seamless out-of-the-box syncing with online calendars and contacts . (At one point, I tried all the available add-ons for syncing with Google's apps; none of those add-ons worked well for me.)

This a thousand times. Thunderbird would have been great if it calendared well with exchange. As it stands, the available support is garbage and barely works when it works at all.

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Post by qznc » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 6:45 PM UTC

A redesign is a great symbolic move to fight "Thunderbird’s key problem is being perceived as either dead or stagnant".

Still, Thunderbird needs a bigger vision. What does Thunderbird want to be? The cross-platform Outlook? Then merge Lightning into core. The native Gmail? Then get a conversations view. The backwards-compatible, easy, and secure mailer? Then merge Enigmail into core or make SMIME easy to use or get some Rust code in. The ultra-portable mailer? Then port it to Android and iOS. The super-flexible mailer? Then somehow help plugin devs.