On 27.10.2010 01:39, David Gerard wrote:
On 26 October 2010 23:35, Zugravu Gheorghe
<zugravu.gheorghe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
And as a small comment: Thunderbird is free (as
in freedom) application
and allows to do whatever manipulation with the code (and there are a
bunch of thunderbird customization already available there) - thus if
there is a need this need can solved by the community. - And Wikimedia
could make a call for improvements in the code of TB, which I believe
would have be taken into consideration by the developers. And more
people could have used the results of that - thus generating a better
and smoother application (as in the wikipedia articles).
It is indeed theoretically possible to make Thunderbird as good as
Gmail and Google Calendar. In practice, no-one's managed to do so in
six years, despite quite a lot of effort. This suggests that although
possible, it may not in fact be feasible.
The necessary condition for a move to Thunderbird instead would be an
existence proof, i.e. a build that is as useful a tool as the Google
tools. Which, note, are not even proper applications, but browser
pages.
- d.
I would say that Thunderbird got a lot of improvements since v1, and
there is still a lot to do with the code. As an example of customization
I can bring this example (
http://www.synovel.com/collab/components) but
I believe there are many more of such ones.
Anyway since there was taken a decision, I guess that the IT people had
made the best choose in order to satisfy all the folks.
regards,
/gheorghe