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Electron apps are usually pretty terrible. They have issues with: 1. Memory usage and cpu usage (you're running a browser to run your application) 2. Platfor

by monksy 8y ago

Electron apps are usually pretty terrible. They have issues with: 1. Memory usage and cpu usage (you're running a browser to run your application) 2. Platform look and feel (doesn't exist in javascript) 3. Platform and windowing behaviors. I agree with the other commented to you.. if it changed to electronic, I would drop it as well.

martinald 8y ago
Considering Thunderbird uses XUL and JavaScript, it has all the same problems.
- DonHopkins 8y ago
  Plus the wee existential problem that its platform is going away, instead of improving.
RealDinosaur 8y ago
Hence the spin-off app. A ground-up, UX focused app which does not have to meet feature parity, would attract users who are already confused by email clients. This is a different target audience to the people who typically use Thunderbird at this time. For some people Apple Mail is enough.
- monksy 8y ago
  Those people are targeted by Geary.
- ben509 8y ago
  TBH, anyone I interact with who is tech savvy doesn't use email, so I really don't need those features.
  - intertextuality 8y ago
    On the other hand, I find slack and its ilk terrible compared to email. Plenty of people I know use that at work, but email is really nice, and I love the features Thunderbird has.
    - ben509 8y ago
      I'm not expressing a preference, just pointing out what people do. You'd better like the features email has because it has a hell of a lot of inertia at this point. That said, it does have the killer feature of genuine interoperability, which virtually none of the new contenders even try for.
  - untog 8y ago
    > anyone I interact with who is tech savvy doesn't use email You live in a strange bubble.
    - ben509 8y ago
      We're not corresponding via email... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Between github, SMS, social media, IRC & slack, video-conferencing, blogs, RSS, etc., email has become the medium of last resort. I still get a lot of email, but it's mostly automated notifications, and I usually have to log in somewhere to actually recieve a document because email is insecure.
  - xte 8y ago
    If someone do not use email hardly can be considered tech savvy. Sorry. Perhaps he/she work for a company that do not really know IT so force their workers to use limited and limiting platforms, but it that's remain for personal world then no, it's might appear to you a tech savvy person but that's only due to Kant-ian glasses, not reality.
pix64 8y ago
Email clients need an html engine, so all that added baggage kinda comes with the territory.
- monksy 8y ago
  They need a stripped down HTML engine for rending incoming emails and composing emails. With an electron-based app how are you going to prevent HTML from rending in the view?

by monksy 8y ago

martinald 8y ago

Considering Thunderbird uses XUL and JavaScript, it has all the same problems.

DonHopkins 8y ago
Plus the wee existential problem that its platform is going away, instead of improving.

RealDinosaur 8y ago

Hence the spin-off app. A ground-up, UX focused app which does not have to meet feature parity, would attract users who are already confused by email clients. This is a different target audience to the people who typically use Thunderbird at this time. For some people Apple Mail is enough.

monksy 8y ago
Those people are targeted by Geary.
ben509 8y ago
TBH, anyone I interact with who is tech savvy doesn't use email, so I really don't need those features.
- intertextuality 8y ago
  On the other hand, I find slack and its ilk terrible compared to email. Plenty of people I know use that at work, but email is really nice, and I love the features Thunderbird has.
  - ben509 8y ago
    I'm not expressing a preference, just pointing out what people do. You'd better like the features email has because it has a hell of a lot of inertia at this point. That said, it does have the killer feature of genuine interoperability, which virtually none of the new contenders even try for.
- untog 8y ago
  > anyone I interact with who is tech savvy doesn't use email You live in a strange bubble.
  - ben509 8y ago
    We're not corresponding via email... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Between github, SMS, social media, IRC & slack, video-conferencing, blogs, RSS, etc., email has become the medium of last resort. I still get a lot of email, but it's mostly automated notifications, and I usually have to log in somewhere to actually recieve a document because email is insecure.
- xte 8y ago
  If someone do not use email hardly can be considered tech savvy. Sorry. Perhaps he/she work for a company that do not really know IT so force their workers to use limited and limiting platforms, but it that's remain for personal world then no, it's might appear to you a tech savvy person but that's only due to Kant-ian glasses, not reality.

pix64 8y ago

Email clients need an html engine, so all that added baggage kinda comes with the territory.

monksy 8y ago
They need a stripped down HTML engine for rending incoming emails and composing emails. With an electron-based app how are you going to prevent HTML from rending in the view?