<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
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
href="http://www.pwc.ch/user_content/editor/files/publ_corp/pwc_ceo_08-1_e.pdf">PriceWaterhouse
document</a>: <i><br>
</i>
<blockquote><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>
</i></blockquote>
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>
<p>And -- not <i>Dying virtuously --</i> I would place the donation
reminder at *all* those places.<br>
</p>
<p>Guenter<i><br>
</i></p>
</body>
</html>