@yogthos Honestly, that's probably a good idea. I tried firing it up recently for testing RSS feeds, and it was so clunky and slow. I know my box isn't exactly cutting edge, but it's happy enough running Gnome, which I figure is a good test of its ability to handle UI.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The issue is that thunderbird is apparently built on top of firefox code, so I expect there's a similar level of layers upon layers of bloat as with many electron apps. But this rebuilding project seems to be focused on the UI side of things and changing how things look, so I don't know if it'll actually improve in terms of performance (it might help a bit though, since they intend to remove stuff and clean up the code on the Thunderbird side of things).

Personally, I feel it would be more interesting to turn it into a Firefox extension (and extend the extensions API where necessary), so the resources that are shared could be actually shared. That, or fully embrace K-9 Mail (the android app that they partnered with and which will become Thunderbird mobile) and adapt it for the desktop.

[–] poVoq 4 points 2 years ago

Turning it into a Firefox plugin would be quite ironic as that was what it used to be pretty much before the Mozilla browser was split into Firefox and Thunderbird.

[–] KelsonV@wandering.shop 1 points 2 years ago

@Ferk On the other hand, Firefox runs just fine on the same machine. It makes me wonder if Firefox got several rounds of optimization after the code bases were split.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, my experience with Thunderbird has been that it's functional, but UI isn't great and it's a bit of a resource hog.

[–] lionel@lemmy.coupou.fr 3 points 2 years ago

Exactly the same, I've been using it for years now because, as you said, it's functional but I would gladly see it more user-friendly.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah the chat function is a mess and I still can't get omemo working with xmpp. Granted, I kinda gave up on it.

[–] poVoq 2 points 2 years ago

The old Thunderbird XMPP integration doesn't support OMEMO. But there are many modern XMPP clients where OMEMO works out of the box without issues.