Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On 27.12.2024 20:14, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

[ Thunderbird issues ]

 
Thunderbird is yet another mail program whose developers think that
Usenet is just like e-mail, and can be bolted onto a mail client.

I may be using Thunderbird now for two decades or more, don't recall.

That it's a combined client (for email, news, chat, and some more)
with a common [basic] GUI is not the problem. Thunderbird has a lot
of (real, unnecessary) problems that the product managers obviously
failed to understand or see. (I won't even start here to enumerate
them.) And it makes things not easier if versions differ completely
in what can be done to try to fix some of these severe shortcomings.

The state of that product is IMO beyond all hope; it would require a
complete redesign to make its interface follow some basic ergonomic
principles (including all the possible configuration capabilities).
(Mileages may vary.)

I've fixed the Reply-button issue in the two (completely different)
versions I'm mostly using - but don't ask me how I did that! - and
I'm meanwhile thus fine with Thunderbird's newsreader component in
a single mail/news application - as long as I don't follow my urge
to fix anything else in this product.

Janis

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