I really hope that this might finally push more development of open source desktop email clients.
Thunderbird is just… messy. Too many “I like to tinker more than I like my software to work” options, and a good bunch of features I would expect standard in an email client as old as it that simply aren’t there. I don’t want to have to pick between 6 competing addons for the same basic functionality.
Too many “I like to tinker more than I like my software to work” options
I fail to see how this is a problem. What are you suggesting here? Eliminate all those options so it looks nicer?
Legitimately, what makes New Outlook so fucking awful is that they did exactly this. They cut out half of the actual usability, options, and functionality of Outlook to make a “clean, lightweight experience”. And it’s objectively terrible as a replacement.
This sentiment that software needs to get dumber because people can’t stand having to look at a bunch of options can seriously die in a fire.
Having the tinkerer options should come after making the software work. From my perspective, Thunderbird is a passable clone of a bad mail client. None of its tweakable options turn it into a good mail client, and so it would be a better mail client than it is had the effort spent on implementing the tweakable options instead been invested into making it generally better.
I really hope that this might finally push more development of open source desktop email clients.
Thunderbird is just… messy. Too many “I like to tinker more than I like my software to work” options, and a good bunch of features I would expect standard in an email client as old as it that simply aren’t there. I don’t want to have to pick between 6 competing addons for the same basic functionality.
I fail to see how this is a problem. What are you suggesting here? Eliminate all those options so it looks nicer?
Legitimately, what makes New Outlook so fucking awful is that they did exactly this. They cut out half of the actual usability, options, and functionality of Outlook to make a “clean, lightweight experience”. And it’s objectively terrible as a replacement.
This sentiment that software needs to get dumber because people can’t stand having to look at a bunch of options can seriously die in a fire.
Having the tinkerer options should come after making the software work. From my perspective, Thunderbird is a passable clone of a bad mail client. None of its tweakable options turn it into a good mail client, and so it would be a better mail client than it is had the effort spent on implementing the tweakable options instead been invested into making it generally better.
I like new Supernova layout. But, if you prefer classic layout you can try betterbird