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I wish I could freeze the program Thunderbird in time to keep it precisely how it is right now for the next couple of decades. I literally want not change. I kn
by Kenji 10y ago
I wish I could freeze the program Thunderbird in time to keep it precisely how it is right now for the next couple of decades. I literally want not change. I know, I know. It's a pipe dream, the surrounding environment changes, breaking the program as the OS and libraries evolve. But this constant resolving of perfectly solved problems annoys me.
- pmontra 10y agoIt's maintenance. Sometimes it has to be somewhat radical. I hope for two things. 1) Drag attachments to folders finally works on Linux. 2) Message filters keep working exactly as they are now or it's going to be a huge pain to migrate them. And a showstopper with no filters.
- fao_ 10y agogit clone <thunderbird-url> <build from source and sudo make install> ^ there you go. A stable thunderbird branch that will work mostly forever. Every time an API changes just shove it in another iteration of a virtual machine :P
- Kenji 10y agoThank you, I know all of that. I like native though. So, both VM and HTML5+JS are things I try to avoid for convenience messaging tools I use many times every day.