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<div id="newHeader"> <b>To: </b>"Patrick
Cloke"<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:clokep@gmail.com"><clokep@gmail.com></a> <br>
<b>From: </b>"Philipp Kewisch"<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mozilla@kewis.ch"><mozilla@kewis.ch></a><br>
<b>CC: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tb-planning@mozilla.org,KentJames">"tb-planning@mozilla.org, Kent James"</a>
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<b>Sent: </b>Saturday, 15/09/12 17:51:10 17:51 GMT Daylight
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<b>Subject:</b>Re: Role of addons </div>
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On Sep 14, 2012, at 20:23, Patrick Cloke <<a
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<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>
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<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>
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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. </blockquote>
Phillip,<br>
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I really like that approach. This is similar to the way that the
chat piece was introduced, in that you had to set up an account in
order to get the feature. Before that you would have a simple UI
without any distractions from potentially unused / not personally
useful features. What is important that the integration point has to
be easily accessible and understandable for the non-technical user.
I do like the "wizard-style" interfaces for these setup tasks as
they can guide both a technical and a non-technical user to achieve
setting up a complex piece of functionality.<br>
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Axel<br>
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