<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br><br><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Sep 14, 2012, at 20:23, Patrick Cloke <<a href="mailto:clokep@gmail.com">clokep@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Kent James <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kent@caspia.com" target="_blank">kent@caspia.com</a>></span> wrote:<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Good candidates for that in the long run would be chat, calendaring,
RSS feeds, bayesian junk processing, advanced security models, and
advanced search and filter functionality.<br></div></blockquote><div>Is this list actually based on anything? I use most of these on a daily basis, as do most people I know of who use Thunderbird. How do you decide what stays in and what goes? Can things be prompted/demoted? There's political as well as technical questions in there, mind you. It would be great to have hard data about what features are used and what ones aren't used.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Maybe this is where one of my visions with calendar would fit in: only enable features if there are accounts for it. A vanilla Thunderbird would have a very plain UI that shows ways to add accouts. No mail specific features like folder panes. When you add a mail account, you get the Thunderbird you've previously known, if you only add a chat account you might get a minimized UI that only shows the contact list and message windows.<div><br></div><div>There would be integration points that offer creating more accounts, like if you send an email you have a button to add an event, clicking it will prompt you to create a calendar account that will add in all the calendaring features, like the Today Pane.</div></body></html>