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Hey TB-Planners,<br>
<br>
Now that all the big features are landed, and we have some time to
breathe again, I've been thinking a little bit about what we want to
do on Thunderbird's front-end over the next couple of releases.<br>
<br>
Here's the list, in the order I think they should be (highest
priority to lowest priority):<br>
<ul>
<li> Papercuts! (Fix the easy little things that are making
Thunderbird worse to use.)</li>
<ul>
<li>Things like the tab you go to after closing the current tab
(bug 508776).</li>
<li>Maybe some <a
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=product%3Athunderbird+whiteboard%3A[UXPrio]">UX
Priorities</a>.</li>
</ul>
<li>Clean up the landed features.</li>
<ul>
<li>Have an easier way to add and remove OpenSearch providers.</li>
</ul>
<li>Compose in a tab.</li>
<ul>
<li>Also address book in a tab.</li>
</ul>
<li>Attachment tab.</li>
<li>Social Search.</li>
<ul>
<li>Extend OpenSearch to social networks.</li>
<li> Also
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://mozillalabs.com/blog/2012/03/experimenting-with-social-features-in-firefox/">http://mozillalabs.com/blog/2012/03/experimenting-with-social-features-in-firefox/</a></li>
</ul>
<li>Thunderbird Button.</li>
<ul>
<li>I think that we might want to skip a UI-refresh and go
straight to the Australis Menu Button instead, but there's
still work to be done here figuring out what functions to make
available on the toolbar, and on this button.</li>
</ul>
<li>Address Book.</li>
<ul>
<li>re-design as a web-app, possibly targeting Mobile first…</li>
<li>This seems important and useful, but it's also a very large
task, and I think I'ld like the front-end team to work on some
smaller stuff for a little while.</li>
</ul>
<li>Perspectives!</li>
<ul>
<li>Could include a Facebook-ish Timeline view.</li>
<li>This is even more important for the future, but it's also a
very large task which I think will take a long time to pay
off, so it falls in the same bucket as the Address Book for
me.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
I would like people to respond with suggestions on things I've
missed, as well as what they would change about the order, and
reasons why.<br>
<br>
I plan on presenting the list, and the feedback, at the Product
Council meeting next Thursday.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Blake.<br>
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Blake Winton Thunderbird User Experience Lead
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bwinton@mozilla.com">bwinton@mozilla.com</a></pre>
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