Thunderbird at Oneiric Ubuntu Developer Summit
Allison Randal
Chris Coulson entered the proposal for Thunderbird as the default email
client in Oneiric (several of you are already subscribed to it):
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-default-email-client
It would be good to get an update on some of the technical issues of
switching defaults listed in that blueprint, especially: Gmail contacts,
calendaring, and Exchange integration.
A few advantages from my perspective that aren't listed in the blueprint:
- Thunderbird has better variation for different form factors of display
(small devices, etc)
- Thunderbird's more active development gives us better potential for
actually solving the problems of email, i.e. email is the single biggest
personal dataset for most users, but has the worst UI, the worst search,
the worst categorization, visualization, and intelligent action. (For
example, I'd be interested to see a Dash Lens for email content, pulling
from Thunderbird as the content provider.)
Allison
Allison Randal
>
> Both Blake Winton and Mike Conley will be attending (but not for the
> entire week). Mike has been working on Unity integration recently, and
> Blake is the Thunderbird UX lead.
Excellent! Looking forward to talking with you both, thanks for joining us!
Allison
Andreas Nilsson
- Andreas
Mike Conley
> Excellent! Looking forward to talking with you both, thanks for joining us!
Thanks for having us - we look forward to being there!
-Mike