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-- how to tell<br>
<b>From:</b>Neandr<br>
<b>To:</b>Tb-planning <br>
<b>Sent: </b>Sunday, 15/05/2016 17:06:35 17:06 GMT ST +0100
[Week 20]<br>
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Thunderbird needs money - no question, if donation is the
right/most important way for that, the project should *not* be shy
to tell the users about it!<br>
<br>
Following the discussions on tb-planning there are some/too many
comments speaking about negative impacts for the users. This
reminds me to the German words: "In Schönheit sterben".<br>
There is translation on a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pwc.ch/user_content/editor/files/publ_corp/pwc_ceo_08-1_e.pdf">PriceWaterhouse
document</a>: <i><br>
</i>
<blockquote class=" cite" id="Cite_2705130"><i>Dying virtuously is
not a serious option for any company!<br>
<small> Page 12 - Dr Rolf Hartl is the managing director
of Swiss Oil (EV).</small><br>
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We want to live (<i>not to die</i>) -- so some more courage is
needed!<br>
<br>
From my perspective seeing how users work with Thunderbird -- how
they configure it -- placing the donation request on the start
page isn't enough.<br>
To be clear:<i> The "Start Page" is launched as a predefined page
in the Message Pane -- *only* </i>-- and displayed only in rare
situations.<i><br>
</i><br>
<br>
Summing up the possibilities to place "reminders" for a donation:<br>
<ul>
<li>open a tab or show the TB startpage with .. </li>
<ul>
<li>the "Hamburger"<br>
</li>
<li>Statusbar -- only visible if enabled <br>
</li>
<li>Main Menu -- only visible with F10 <br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>open a web page with updating</li>
<ul>
<li>currently there is no such page after updating -- afaik</li>
</ul>
<li>more ???<br>
</li>
</ul>
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I had suggested this before: a permanent icon beside the (classic)
help menu. Within the hamburger menu, a cute icon / command above
the exit command. Make sure to be able to disable / hide it after
usage. Reenable on each ESR release :)<br>
<br>
Doesn't really take extra screen estate but it permanent.<br>
<br>
Axel<br>
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