Carl Foxmarten (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
carlfoxmarten) wrote2012-04-20 02:18 pm
carlfoxmarten) wrote2012-04-20 02:18 pm
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Thunderbird, from v3 to v11
My Linux distribution updated the version of Thunderbird it has from the old version 3.0.something to the absolute latest version, which was version 11.
With this update, it's no longer complaining about becoming obsolete and unsupported, but it's also become incompatible with the theme I was using.
Thunderbird has always lagged behind Firefox in a very significant way in the themes and extensions department, but the leap to the rapid version-number bumping has only made this worse.
There are no good themes available for Thunderbird in general, especially compared with the sheer variety that is available for Firefox, and even fewer that are compatible with Thunderbird 11.
If I can find a good theme for this version, I might be able to stand it long enough to get used to it, but they've also changed a whole bunch of other things.
For instance, now Thunderbird hogs half my processor, doing nothing (which the old one never did, even when checking things for updates), the quick message-viewing pane used to have a way to slim down its information header (it doesn't any more), and they haven't been very effective with the amount of space things use.
(I'm rather picky in that regard. If you waste usable space in a manner I can't fix, you've failed me)
Yes, I'm being picky.
Yes, it just updated today.
Yes, I was used to the old version.
But Thunderbird 11 has failed me on several levels, and I will not even begin to appreciate it again until each and every one of these concerns are addressed.
With this update, it's no longer complaining about becoming obsolete and unsupported, but it's also become incompatible with the theme I was using.
Thunderbird has always lagged behind Firefox in a very significant way in the themes and extensions department, but the leap to the rapid version-number bumping has only made this worse.
There are no good themes available for Thunderbird in general, especially compared with the sheer variety that is available for Firefox, and even fewer that are compatible with Thunderbird 11.
If I can find a good theme for this version, I might be able to stand it long enough to get used to it, but they've also changed a whole bunch of other things.
For instance, now Thunderbird hogs half my processor, doing nothing (which the old one never did, even when checking things for updates), the quick message-viewing pane used to have a way to slim down its information header (it doesn't any more), and they haven't been very effective with the amount of space things use.
(I'm rather picky in that regard. If you waste usable space in a manner I can't fix, you've failed me)
Yes, I'm being picky.
Yes, it just updated today.
Yes, I was used to the old version.
But Thunderbird 11 has failed me on several levels, and I will not even begin to appreciate it again until each and every one of these concerns are addressed.
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My brother is paid $12/hour flat-rate, and suspects they're charging $15/hour for his time, though he's not really supposed to find out.
(it's part of the contract, so you don't know how much of the pie you're missing)
We'll see about it being a perfect job.
Right now, I don't handle working alone very well (it's a self-motivation problem), and would prefer to start out under somebody's wing to learn things.
It's probably a good thing that Google didn't get me.
Somebody left Google, and posted a note as to why.
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Sad about Google, but it's not surprising. Nothing lasts forever. Disney went the same way; losing its pioneering spirit and becoming a corporate machine. Sierra Entertainment allowed themselves to be bought out, thinking that they'd still be able to carry on with business as usual, then suffered the fall when it was discovered that their new parent company had been fiddling the books.
At least Google didn't suffer Infocom's fate - investing too much in one product that ultimately failed, then being bought out by Activision who dismantled them.
Thankfully Aardman Animations avoided the corporate maw - after Dreamworks interfered far too much with the production of "Flushed Away" leading to a dissapointing film Aardman decided to return to the way things used to be. Many other companies should follow their example.