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In which way is Thunderbird ugly?
by cynicalsecurity 3y ago
In which way is Thunderbird ugly?
- ComputerGuru 3y agoUgly visually and ergonomically. Default choice of fonts, mishmash of visual styles from across decades of development in the various widgets, non-native/non-pixel-aligned font rendering, context menus that relegate the most common actions to submenus while elevating actions that you're not going to use as much, alignment issues abound, use of modal dialogs for things that are taking place in the background and should be progress bar widgets instead, dialogs that need focus being placed under dialogs that can't be used until the backgrounded dialog is interacted with, etc.
- Syonyk 3y agoIt's dense, and requires a pixel perfect pointing device to use. In other words, it's a desktop app, through and through. If you're used to stuff that's mobile-first, it's a rather jarring change - I can see how one would consider it ugly. I happen to find it "dense, usable, and does the job fine." I wouldn't call it pretty, but neither do I mind a utilitarian interface to do things like "read my mail."
- ComputerGuru 3y agoThose weren't my reasons, actually — I am old-school and prefer information-dense layouts designed for use with a mouse (though Thunderbird needs a lot of work to be usable via keyboard). I posted another comment with my actual reasons.