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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Kent, hi folks,<br>
<br>
no question I very much respect all the work done in the past and
the recent ideas and discussions about the visibility of a
donation "request". <br>
<br>
Forgive me, but Thunderbird has to be somewhat "aggressive" to
reach the goals with 500,000$ fund raising.<br>
And yes, any form of a donation request will nag some users. But
having the need to get money to have a successful and bright
future of Thunderbird we need to go that way and not hide our
needs.<br>
<br>
Sorry about <br>
<blockquote type="cite">.. a couple of years ago, and the general
consensus was ..<br>
</blockquote>
Did we had the todays situation? Where did the money came from
those days. Today is different, for sure.<br>
<br>
Referring to bug 1087868 helps only partially. Yes redesigning
the Account Central page sounds OK, and adding the donation
request there sounds fine for those users which don't like to see
an extra tab or separate page.<br>
<br>
From my view these points have to be decided:<br>
<ol>
<li>Place a donation notifier to a very prominent place on the
Thunderbird UI. <br>
Think there are good ideas here already<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Assemble a good page for donation with why, how, etc.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Place the donation 'page' on<br>
a\ the start page as it's today, splitted with message list<br>
or<br>
b\ show it on a separate tab, there are examples like the
Welcome page after first installation (if I'm right)<br>
</li>
</ol>
<br>
For me the "best" way is to go with:<br>
1. place a menu button together with the Hamburger (needs a new
defined toolbar, afaik)<br>
This should open the extra tab (3.) with the donation page (2.)<br>
2. a good donation page ... I hope there are clever people out
there to design it .. someone should define what's on there ..
maybe a new bug for it?<br>
3. go with a separate tab<br>
<br>
To throw in another possibility to get attention for first time
user, have a look at the extra bar Firefox is using.<br>
Don't we have such a bar also which shows "Know your Rights!" ..
or is it with Firefox also, don't remember.<br>
<br>
Guenter<br>
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