[Kde-pim] State of Thunderbird

[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday, 2014-02-15, 02:49:23, Mark Gaiser wrote:

> But the video - the entire presentation - actually has a bit of a sad
> tone. That guy seems to be very willing to spend more time on
> developing Thunderbird but is simply not getting the time from Mozilla
> HQ. They really need a future vision for Thunderbird.

Indeed. As he explained in the Q&A session, management thinks that web mail is 
the way to go, which is double unfortunate for them since the company's main 
product is a web browser.

> I hope Thunderbird itself will still exists in.. 5 years.

My guess would be yes. 5 years is probably not long enough to completely get 
rid of such a widely deployed product.

However, the part about rewriting the MIME parser in JS made me think whether 
their vision is to fold mail capabilities into Firefox at some point.
They might even need/want something like that for Firefox OS.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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