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It's almost time! Thunderbird 115 Supernova releases at noon PST / 3pm EST / 9pm CEST.
(Less than an hour from right now!)
Textual words from them:
It’s our first step towards a more modern, more beautiful, and more customizable Thunderbird experience. We think you’re going to love it, and we are endlessly grateful for all of your support throughout the years 💙
I was gonna say, I tried it a couple months ago and I'm pretty sure it hadn't been changed since when I was using it in like 2012. I thought a theme might help so I checked out the available themes, and the "popular" ones were ones that felt like they were from back then too. Everyone remembers Firefox / Thunderbird themes from back then: frosted glass, photos of space, flames, lots of gradients, themes that look like wood for some reason, that gross red text on black-white gradient background. It was like the entire app was aesthetically trapped in the early 2010s, even the community's themes.
Looks nice. I'm not an email power user but I still use Thunderbird just to handle multiple accounts. I'm grateful to this software for simplifying my life a bit.
I recently went back to using Thunderbird after not doing so for, I don't know, maybe a decade. Having everything in one place is very convenient indeed.
I don't like the new logo; it looks mean. The previous logo showed a charming bird that delivered my mail, the new one portrays a bird of prey clutching a letter, it will probably bite you if you try to retrieve the letter.
They finally updated the calendar so it doesn't look like it's out of windows 95?
Thank god. I really wanna use it now but I'm too tied down to Outlook now. I guess I'll try to migrate.
If it had a mobile app it would make it much easier. The Outlook mobile app is really good.
I believe they've inherited the K-9 Mail app project but haven't yet renamed it. At least it's still showing up as K-9 Mail for me on an Android device.
Looks very gnome. Sadly I use KDE so it still looks like a foreign object, just like Firefox. I want native app to look like native apps, is that too much to ask?
Let's say it's a lot to ask, especially when the app also needs to be crossplatform and behave functionally the same on all platforms.
Maybe it could be done, in theory, with a lot of work, but it's definitely not at all an easy task, especially for a project that seemed dead and buried just a few years ago and with just a handful of volunteer devs.
Most crossplatform apps that I can think of don't really look like native apps in any system. I'm thinking of Chromium, VSCode, Discord, Steam etc.
The only one I can think of right now is Whatsapp, but I'm pretty sure they actually developed three independent apps and maintain all three, for Android, iOS and Windows. They all look and feel like native apps because they are. Please tell me if I'm wrong.
Still, you can't expect all, or even most developers to do something like that, especially when you start including all the different DEs and themes and so on.
I usually setup a profile somwhere on a spare drive and sync all my mail into it, just in case. Forgot about a yahoo account i had a few years ago and lost it with all it's content. Never again.
I’ve used thunderbird pretty much from the start, for the last 20 years or so. The UI was looking a bit dated, lately, so I’m really looking forward to this. The next thing we need is better performance (I may suffer more than most as I have literally hundreds of thousands of messages and dozens of folders on the imap server). Fingers crossed!
My work has IMAP shut off and we can only use MAPI. There's a paid thunderbird plugin that adds MAPI support, which is likely what this person is hoping for natively 👍
I hope they fixed the performance as well. I have several crashes per day on debian with version 102.11.0
When starting it I have to wait for a bit before I click anything, otherwise it crashes. It also 100%s one CPU core regularly, I don't know if that is supposed to happen. It also sometimes does not show the content of certain emails. All that said it's still the best mail client I've used so far.
I waited for Thunderbird to get good for so long, I ended migrating to emClient... Looks great, but I don't think I feel like resetting all my devices and systems again
Are there any plans for tray icon and desktop notification support? Those features are the only reason I would run a desktop email client, without them I'll just use a browser. I know Birdtray exists but I can't get it to work with flatpak Thunderbird.
Loving it so far! Anyone know how to change the font or font size when you view the message body as plain text rather than HTML? All the font settings I could find in the gui are not changing it.
Can single-key shortcuts finally be changed/disabled? I can't count the number of times I thought I had focus in a different element or even different application and accidentally archived, marked as spam or otherwise hid several e-mails just by a typing a single word.
I've been using Thunderbird for ages. I like the card view, although I still prefer the list view with no preview if I have a ton of messages to go through.
I've tried Thunderbird and wasn't convinced.. My work life is basically email, and I've tried several email apps over the years, a lot more than most people. I've found Postbox on desktop and Spark on mobile to be the magic pair for me so far. Unless Postbox fails me, I don't think I'll bother trying anything else anytime soon... Though I'm open to suggestions for mobile, since there's room for improvement with Spark.
Eh... it's pretty, I guess, but it's just too "appified" for power users. My Thunderbird UI is festooned with useful buttons and menus for quick access, and I like the old style of having elements tightly spaced to maximize contextual awareness.
Can anyone confirm whether or not it's built on Electron?
The closest I can find is from Feb 2023, saying that at that time it would not be Electron:
Mozilla also still plans to use the Firefox web browser as the core platform for Thunderbird. That leaves Thunderbird as one of the few cross-platform mail applications that isn’t an Electron app or based on web technologies in some way
So possibly Electron-like but based on Firefox rather than Chromium?