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> Multi-line view like in Outlook, Lotus Notes and Postbox > Betterbird: Yes! > Thunderbird: No, requested since 2003 Wonderful! Back in the mid-2000s, this

by flomo 4y ago

> Multi-line view like in Outlook, Lotus Notes and Postbox > Betterbird: Yes! > Thunderbird: No, requested since 2003 Wonderful! Back in the mid-2000s, this annoyed me enough to switch from Thunderbird to Outlook for work mail. Great to hear they had to fork the project to match the delicious UI of Lotus Notes. Honestly since then I haven't thought much about local PC mail clients to even consider any alternatives. Apple Mail and web mail work fine.

vanous 4y ago
> Multi-line view like in Outlook, Lotus Notes and Postbox > Betterbird: Yes! > Thunderbird: No, requested since 2003 What kind of obligation do opensource projects have when someone makes a feature request? Honest question, because i see this mentioned as an argument. I presume no one is stopping anyone from developing it and proposing a PR, if the "main dev team" or whoever is running the project is not seeing that feature request as a priority.
- ComplexSystems 4y ago
  What kind of obligation does anyone have to use Thunderbird if it doesn't have features that they want?
  - vanous 4y ago
    Precisely! No obligation on either side.
kadotus 4y ago
Finally coming to thunderbird too: https://www.askvg.com/thunderbird-to-get-multi-line-message-list-view-in-version-114/ https://www.askvg.com/thunderbird-to-get-multi-line-message-...
lnxg33k1 4y ago
I mean but did I miss something or Thunderbird is open source? Like the author lists a bunch of functionalities that were requested for Thunderbird but weren't implemented, but they implemented in Betterbird, was it a bad thing to maybe create a pull request for Thunderbird to keep a single product? Or spotlight was the main objective?
- E39M5S62 4y ago
  Open source doesn't mean that the upstream project wants to / is obligated to merge any and all changes that appear in the wild.
- nerdponx 4y ago
  Their point is that patches for these things have existed for years and/or were fixed and then un-fixed later.

by flomo 4y ago

vanous 4y ago

> Multi-line view like in Outlook, Lotus Notes and Postbox > Betterbird: Yes! > Thunderbird: No, requested since 2003 What kind of obligation do opensource projects have when someone makes a feature request? Honest question, because i see this mentioned as an argument. I presume no one is stopping anyone from developing it and proposing a PR, if the "main dev team" or whoever is running the project is not seeing that feature request as a priority.

ComplexSystems 4y ago
What kind of obligation does anyone have to use Thunderbird if it doesn't have features that they want?
- vanous 4y ago
  Precisely! No obligation on either side.

kadotus 4y ago

Finally coming to thunderbird too: https://www.askvg.com/thunderbird-to-get-multi-line-message-list-view-in-version-114/ https://www.askvg.com/thunderbird-to-get-multi-line-message-...

lnxg33k1 4y ago

I mean but did I miss something or Thunderbird is open source? Like the author lists a bunch of functionalities that were requested for Thunderbird but weren't implemented, but they implemented in Betterbird, was it a bad thing to maybe create a pull request for Thunderbird to keep a single product? Or spotlight was the main objective?

E39M5S62 4y ago
Open source doesn't mean that the upstream project wants to / is obligated to merge any and all changes that appear in the wild.
nerdponx 4y ago
Their point is that patches for these things have existed for years and/or were fixed and then un-fixed later.