"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message news:hn9be6$312...@digitalmars.com... > 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!" >
That's exactly how I feel about 90% of software these days. (In that light, it's probably no surprise why I'm so damn bitchy and stubborn about things so much of the time ;) )
