On 10/03/10 23:53, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
The kick-off meeting for Thunderbird 3:
"Thunderbird 2 is quite sluggish, has poor asynchronous execution of
tasks, poor focus control, and annoying modal dialogs on error. What do
we do for version 3?"
"Let's build on all that! We'll make Thunderbird 3 even more sluggish
even on the best of machines. Let them wait for second with an old
screen whenever they click on something."
"Excellent! While we're at it, let's make the selection colors such that
the user never knows where the focus is. That, combined with the
slugishness of the UI, will go a great job at confusing people."
"And how about this - let's even insert large delays at random while the
user is typing an email. There's nothing better than typing out of sync
with the screen!"
"Awesome! To make the deal sweeter, we'll replace the useful filter
functionality with a full-blown search. That would require us to index
all emails in the background thus making things even slower, and will
confuse the heck out of everyone."
"Go Thunderbird 3!"
Sigh.
Andrei
It's a shame your experience of Thunderbird 3 has been like that. I've
noticed almost no difference in speed between Thunderbird 2 and 3, and
the search functionality is far more useful to me now, in v2 it was too
restrictive for me... I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case for
you though, that seems to be the way of Mozilla's apps atm, they get
more and more bloated with each release :/ I don't use Thunderbird too
much so the difference isn't too major for me, but with Firefox it was
hellish, as I always have a minimum of 5 tabs open, most of which have
ajax/js heavy apps running in them... If one of them triggered a bug
it'd freeze the whole browser if not crash it. I switched to Chrome as
soon as it became native for x86-64 Linux and haven't looked back :)
It's a shame there's no other real alternative out there to
Thunderbird... unless I'm mistaken of course :)
