If you think about it, this bug and the way it is dealt with by the developers is exemplary for the product. It's "major updates" are minor patches. Who notices the heralded new account wizard as an exising user? Nobody. Who has problems with inline attachments? Everybody, since version 0.01 of the product. So let's develop a new account wizard and mark the inline attachments bug as "RESOLVED INVALID".
Similarly, all the other issues and feature requests I invested time and effort in on this forum have not been seen as relevant by the developers. (E.g. the fact that entering and especially copy-pasting or cutting multiple email addresses from e.g. the To: field is so ridiculously cumbersome; the fact that the search engine introduced in TB3 is incredibly slow; the fact that properly layouting HTML emails is really a pain; the ugly and inconvenient placement of buttons in the preview pane header; the fact that only new email composition does not happen in a tab; ...) I've started contributing bugs and feature requests around version 1.x. We're now at version 5, five years later at least, and most major opportunities for improvement have not been addressed. Thunderbird as a consequence still is an immature product, and given how the developers prioritize their coding efforts, I'm sure version 8 will give us the 5th major GUI overhaul and a spectacular New Account Wizard... and it will still reload IMAP attachments every time you select an email. I hate to say it as a definite non-fanboy of Apple, but if the TB developers would take a short look at Apple Mail (even the one in OS X 10.6), they'd notice everything that is wrong with TB. If Apple can do it, then it must not be too difficult to write a simple yet functional email program. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275471 Title: mozilla attachments are dowloaded multiple times Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Invalid Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird scenario. open thunderbird and a message (new or old, doesnt matter) with a big attachment, lets say a .jpg that is 2Mb. and for the sake of argument lets also say it is the first new message of your day. So TBird automatically focuses on the first message, and you can watch the progress bar as it loads the message.... some time later, the load is done. hey, the image has a funny resolution in this view, so i double-click on the message and pop up a message window. AND THEN THE MESSAGE WINDOW DOWNLOADS THE oh-so- fargin-lovely 2Mb AGAIN. no, this is not all. No, TBird can be made to DL that sucker in all sorts of odd ways. It is very annoying and seems so unnecessary. Are mail messages ever actually volatile? And even if they were, for what fraction of hte people would they be like that? this is probably not a "bug" per se; but my bet is a lot of people would like to download that 2Mb just once. b.t.w., in this scenario I have an IMAP-SSL connection to my server. ubuntu 8.04 hardy thunderbird: Installed: 2.0.0.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 Candidate: 2.0.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 Version table: 2.0.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0 500 http://mirror.pacific.net.au hardy-security/main Packages *** 2.0.0.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0 500 http://mirror.pacific.net.au hardy-updates/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://mirror.pacific.net.au hardy/main Packages ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Sep 28 21:21:28 2008 Dependencies: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list] PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: thunderbird Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/275471/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
