On 27.10.2010 01:39, David Gerard wrote:
On 26 October 2010 23:35, Zugravu Gheorghe zugravu.gheorghe@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