+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted April 26, 2012 Subscriber² Share Posted April 26, 2012 Mozilla Thunderbird 12.0 final has been released. View: Release Notes Download: Mozilla Thunderbird 12.0 (for Linux/OS X/Windows) Steven P. 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPressland Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 It's a shame it still looks the same as version 1 stevember 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShMaunder Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 It's a shame it still looks the same as version 1 Maybe because there is nothing wrong with the GUI ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPressland Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Maybe because there is nothing wrong with the GUI ? I guess, if it's not broke, don't fix it. But i'd like to see some Innovation, backend changes can only go so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted April 26, 2012 Author Subscriber² Share Posted April 26, 2012 It's an email client. There are only so many ways of how to design the UI of an email client. Besides, Thunderbird 11.0 introduced one small default UI change: It moved the tabs to the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShMaunder Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 ^^ Indeed. One thing I would like to see is the "lightning" extension (aka Calendar) being integrated into TB with an option to enable/disable it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syanide Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 They're bringing Australis to Thunderbird. Should give it a much needed UI refresh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 It's an email client. There are only so many ways of how to design the UI of an email client. Besides, Thunderbird 11.0 introduced one small default UI change: It moved the tabs to the top. It looks fine after that change, the problem before was their disgusting use of aero + tabs on the bottom. It looked like firefox 4 alpha did :/ Previous UI had no place in a final release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Definitely one of my favorite mail clients, just a couple things that I wish they'd take care of. TBird is very flexible thanks to it's large number of addons (I sorely wish I had AdBlock for Outlook for example to filter out RSS ad spam without having to rely on Yahoo Pipes or the like) but the memory usage is still pretty high.. with my setup it typically runs about 3x or more memory than Outlook 2010. They managed to knock Firefox's memory usage way down, TBird needs some love there. Just my own opinion, or maybe I'm just too used to Outlook, but not a fan of tabs in a mail client. Or, if they're going to insist on staying with tabs, then at least be consistent about it.. sometimes things are in tabs, sometimes they're in popup windows. For example, why isn't the address book in a tab by default? Need to use an addon for that. Right now it's a half-assed mess. Lightning's pretty decent, but still relies on a bunch of addons for stuff that it should be doing out of the box. Birthdays in the address book for example, that's just a no-brainer. And I agree with above.. just build it into TBird itself already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auroka Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 It's an email client. There are only so many ways of how to design the UI of an email client. Besides, Thunderbird 11.0 introduced one small default UI change: It moved the tabs to the top. IMO Thunderbird's UI is perfectly functional. It's just really ugly. Australis looks way better then Thunderbird's current UI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted April 26, 2012 Veteran Share Posted April 26, 2012 They're bringing Australis to Thunderbird. Should give it a much needed UI refresh. Shame it took this long, I moved over to Postbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappy Veteran Posted April 26, 2012 Veteran Share Posted April 26, 2012 Shame it took this long, I moved over to Postbox. same, loving Postbox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salty Wagyu Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Using Classic TB2 theme in Thunderbird, makes it look a bit more acceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted April 26, 2012 MVC Share Posted April 26, 2012 Long live the WinMail Blue theme. my favorite thunderbird theme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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