TB experiment: bugs, bugs, bugs
Here’s a list of the bugs in Bugzilla related to the things I found while playing with Thunderbird for the last few days. Some of these are existing bugs and others are bugs I filed myself.
I’m still using it, and am debating sticking with it despite the handful of frustrating issues, although I still suspect the lack of address book integration will finally send me back to Mail.
- Double-clicking with the clicks in different places opens the wrong item.
- Would like to be able to toggle the read status without first bringing the message list window to the foreground
- Should be able to attach files by dragging to the content area of the message
- Printing messages prints with a grey background
- Add option to disable “connection timeout” alerts
- Remove message pane dragger when the pane is hidden
- Add option to quote selected text only when replying to messages
- Can’t undo delete message on IMAP
- Add a way to see all unread mail in all folders/accounts in one pane
- Label on the Mark button should indicate the default action that will occur when clicking the button
- Use bullets instead of asterisks to block out password characters
- Custom sound window says to pick a WAV file even though AIFF works
- Add a way to create accounts without using the new account wizard
- Add support for third-party spam filter applications
- Add a .Mac account type along with IMAP and POP on Macs
- Use keychain for passwords
- Add support for Mac OS X address book
I’m not filing the basic issues with the UI being noncompliant with some UI guidelines, or about widgets being non-native, since that’s all well known and is hopefully going to be addressed in the relatively near future.
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:14 am
> I’m not filing the basic issues [...] about widgets being non-native, since that’s all well known and is hopefully going to be addressed in the relatively near future.
If Thunderbird goes the way Firefox has gone lately, no, that won’t happen.
September 23rd, 2006 at 7:46 am
I have been using the Unread Folders sidebar for weeks. I love it! I just click the right arrow at the top of the All Folders sidebar to get into it. I haven’t seen the issue with the message pane dragger, but then I usually don’t have that pane opened in favor of seeing more messages in the list. I just open up a message window and use the Button! extension to add Previous! and Next! buttons to my toolbar to go from message to message.