Thunderbird 3.x preferences rant
I really like Thunderbird so don't get me wrong here. However I just have to rant a bit about the user interface for configuring this particular mail client.
To their credit they do have most everything you would want in the GUI. Except one thing I really needed, a way to set the font size for the list of emails and other things that are part of the user interface not just the message body text.
I know some people will say "but look a simple google search tell you how to do that! Why are you complaning?" I'm complaining because things like this should not require editing a config file! I like that its customizable by a CSS file thats a wonderful thing. But you can't tell me that this couldn't have been editable in the preferences GUI. I have nothing against config files I like being able to do cool things with config files but this is 2010 not 1992! Evrything doesn't need to be in a GUI but I would expect that basic look and feel modifications, like the font size of the list of emails would be configurable from the GUI. Is that too much to ask for in the 21st century?
Maybe I'm getting spoiled these days but I'm sure people considering an open source mail client are put off by things like this. I know they are because I actually got asked by the person whom I was increasing the font size for "Is it difficult to config that option because it's open source?"
Anyway I still love Thunderbird I just hope that they will fix things like this in newer releases.
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