Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign

(blog.thunderbird.net)

29 points | by birdculture 2 hours ago

8 comments

  • ricardobeat 1 minute ago
    About ten years late to mimic Google Calendar. Was hoping for something new.
  • evilmonkey19 9 minutes ago
    Personally, I like the Google design and I bet most users will be familiar with. It works. Do not reinvent the wheel and just make it efficient.
  • specproc 13 minutes ago
    Dear writers, please don't give me "## The Big Picture"
  • Arcuru 15 minutes ago
    So this is a new design, but it's at the design proposal stage and not yet implemented?

    They've been talking about redesigning Thunderbird for years now, but I'm honestly not sure I've noticed any difference at all in my actual use.

  • pcunite 16 minutes ago
    I was an Outlook user for nearly 20 years. Switch to macOS last year, and along with that went with Thunderbird. It does need some love, but grateful it existed. I like to look at my monthly calendar, open two events, and compare them. Sometimes, I like my monthly calendar visible all by itself, then I'll open emails to the far left or right, then maybe an event in the middle, or to the left.

    In other words, I like them all as separate windows, while I compare websites, notes, on the phone, and then adding or editing all these things while talking to people too.

    Making the Calendar view, an the list of emails as two separate windows would be amazing.

    Thank you Thunderbird team!

  • downrightmike 1 hour ago
    A+ Thunderbird team! We absolutely needed an update. Maybe on the next moon mission NASA will send a functional email client instead of two broken ones.
  • greatgib 1 hour ago
    Is it a full page of text to just say that they implemented the UI of Google Calendar?
    • Arcuru 15 minutes ago
      I think it's a design mockup, they didn't implement it yet.
    • downrightmike 1 hour ago
      That's a plus because people don't have to learn a new design, which is why how UI is done is closely regulated in every commercial OS, especially now with app stores. I just want it to be faster than outlook
    • FireBeyond 58 minutes ago
      ... but with apparently broken HTML, per the comments.
  • Klonoar 1 hour ago
    ...can someone tell me why the hell the macOS traffic lights are indented like that?

    Like is this just a mockup I'm not understanding correctly?

    • chews 55 minutes ago
      Ya, I noticed that too. It doesn't seem to conform Apple HIG... but, let's be honest, even Apple isn't doing the greatest job with respect to keeping to their standards.