[CLUE-Talk] Re: mozilla thunderbird

[Angelo Bertolli]

While we must keep in mind it hasn't even gotten to the 1.0 stage yet, I
would agree: one of the things I liked most about Mozilla and other non-MS
software (like OpenOffice) is that the menu items were WAY more intuitive
to me than in something like Outlook or Word.  MS has a tendency to put
things in weird places--then most people I guess get used to these.  Maybe
that's why Thunderbird decided to move some things around: to put things
in places most MS users would naturally look.  But as for me, my vote is
to keep them where they are, or improve them.  I'm surprised Outlook
doesn't have a menu called "Menu" or something.

Angelo

> Yeah, I keep mixing up the two names.  Both are pretty nice software, I
> like 'em, but moving things around in a user interface people have used
> for a long time is confusing for no good reason.  Bad programmer.  No
> donut.  User-hostile design, as a friend of mine would say... heck,
> *I'll* say it.  :-)
>
> Also taking functionaliy completely out of the mailer and moving it to
> plugins (example: Offline mode) was frustrating in that I had to "fix"
> Thunderbird (by installing plugins) to do what the previous versions did
> already... seemed kinda silly to have to do that.