SummaryIncrease Thunderbird's versatility as a messaging client by 5-10x by adopting the existing FOSS cross-platform messaging-app connector libpurple Why?Thunderbird is more than an email/calendar/address book client. It also does chat over XMPP ...
# Idea: remembering where the divide between thread list and message window isI suggest making the split a percentage. Even a very approximate one. "User has thread list as 25% of the window, message pane as 75%." A low granularity would be enough. 1...
It is not easy to find how to switch between card view and table view. I only know of two ways:1. The unlabelled button next to the _Quick Filter_ button2. The top of the _Appearance_ page in _Settings_.I suggest there should be a "Threads Pane" entr...
Firefox has an tick-box for "show title bar" on the Toolbar customisation screen.
Thunderbird has it elsewhere, buried in Settings.
I think it would be easier to find it if was in the same place as in Firefox, or better still, in both places.
I like menus and use the menu bar a lot, so I have it permanently shown.
I do not like the new position underneath the search box, so I am using a custom `userchrome.css` file to move it to the top:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1422908...
> I see this in Thunderbird 128's Settings UI on Windows and Mac.As I said: "buried in Settings", whereas on Firefox -- by far the dominant project -- it's in toolbar customisation. I submit it should be there, too.
> Without icons, it just looks like a soulless list I have to grind through every time I use the menu.Good. Soulless is what I want. I do not want my menus to have soul, or any other clutter. I want text. Text is fast and efficient and clean and simp...
Thanks for the comment!Is the chat client part of T'bird something that is extensible with addons? I don't know. I've never seen any, but it seems it fell victim to the same Great Dying of addons that affected Firefox when Firefox Quantum was release...
Merely offering a counter opinion: For me, icons in menus reduce their readability. I dislike them. I didn't like them when they appeared in MS Office XP (or around then). Waterfox sometimes still shows them and I really do not like it.As an option, ...
This is a duplicate:https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/top-menu-should-be-top-menu-again-and-a-proposal-for-a-new/m-p/37548 You can fix this yourself with a custom stylesheet:https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1422908
