On 27.10.2010 01:15, Jon Davis wrote:
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 15:02, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.comwrote:
Erik Moeller, 26/10/2010 23:01:
We've recommended Thunderbird in the past (with some folks sticking with GMail, yours truly included), but unfortunately it doesn't meet all our needs.
Why?
All things considered, I like Thunderbird, but it has two main issues for us.
#1 - No integrated & centralized calendar.
What about the Sunbird/Lightning extension for the Thunderbird. I think that the number of manipulation to setup them will be the same with the amount of setup for Google Calendar.
#2 - Search. A number of people have mentioned this to me and I think it might be the biggest single issue with Thunderbird that I've seen. If you have a large number of emails, search in Thunderbird works in strange ways. It will find some emails that seem totally unrelated to your search term, and miss the most obvious ones. I consider myself fairly adept at manipulating search engines into finding what I need and even I have had serious issues finding what I want. It's gone so far that at least one staff that I know of took to sorting emails into folders by whom they were received from, then color coding each "thread" differently - simply so the user could find what they were looking for.
I guess indeed the search in Thunderbird may be not so accurate as in Gmail (since google started as a search engine - no comments on that) - but thunderbird has a lot of extension with whom you can do whatever you want to do with it - including the ones for searching.
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).
-Jon