<Rant mode on>
When did the developers decide against DFWAB? (Don't Fix What Ain't Broke)
<Rant mode off>
First annoyance:
The latest version of Thunderbird (115.3.1) comes with some annoying
changes.
Several buttons that used to be in a toolbar disappeared. Somehow I
tripped over a way to add a button that is for starting a new message on
my main machine but have not been able to find it on my laptop. The old
button said "Write" and the new button says "New Message". T-Bird on
both machines is 115.3.1. The main machine is Xubuntu 22.04, and the
laptop is Xubuntu 20.04.
I've tried Edit > Settings, and View > Toolbars > Customize..., but have
not found what I'm looking for. In the Customize the toolbars page that
is a collection of things to add, but nothing related to New Message.
Just to see what would happen, I "added" one of the buttons, but it
never showed up. And yes, I did click <Save>.
Any idea where I should be looking?
Second annoyance:
When I reply to a message, I usually delete a bunch of stuff by holding
the shift key down and clicking where I want the beginning of the
deletion to occur, and then hit <Enter>. That used to leave the cursor
showing. Now it doesn't. If I start typing, the first character I type
does not appear, and all the blank lines above my signature block are
deleted. Hitting <Enter> three times cleans that up, and the cursor is
showing after one blank line below the text to which I'm replying. That
works, but why is it needed?
Anyway, back to my opening rant, what is the point of all these changes?
Do they fix something? For me they break things.
Grouse, grouse.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
