Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird based on web technologies

Re:Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird bas... by problems on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:12PM (#14157985)

I feel the same way personally. I feel like I see tons of people complaining about it, but it's just what I want out of a mail client. The UI is a great, the GPG integration is great with enigmail, it's a very polished product.

Not only that, but making one based on web technologies that moves away from the native look and feel it currently has would truly be a loss in my opinion. I'd probably give Claws Mail and alpine another go, maybe even desktop outlook before I'd go to something Electron-esque. I already have enough shitty electron apps - I'm currently dealing with a really weird font rendering issue arising from Electron use in VS Code.

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Re:Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird bas... by _eht on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:59PM (#14159726)

It's an incredible product as-is, but I feel like they are stuck between a rock and a hard place with moving forward and forecasting beyond the immediate future.

I don't see why a new implementation couldn't maintain the current UI/native feel outside of poor decision making.

I could see it as a net positive, with cleaner easier to maintain code base built on more recent tech that is more accommodating to younger developers.

If they could pull off what Atom.io/Github did for the old ingrained IDE world in a mail client, that would be incredible, IMO.

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Re:Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird bas... by forgotpwtomain on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:52PM (#14160223)

> If they could pull off what Atom.io/Github did for the old ingrained IDE world in a mail client, that would be incredible, IMO.

You mean give hipster programmers an editor where one can literally see the delay between typing and something appearing on the screen?

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Re:Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird bas... by sctb on Friday April 21, 2017 @05:51PM (#14169708)

We don't personally attack other users like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird bas... by smonff on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:14PM (#14158014)

Same. I did quite dirty stuff with Thunderbird and it always behave well and it never crash. Plus, it's quite ergonomic.

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Re:Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird bas... by watter on Friday April 21, 2017 @07:09AM (#14164504)

If you're on Linux uninstall mscorefonts.

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