Look,at the header image and glance in the middle of the Wednesday column vs the middle of Sunday’s or Monday’s column. Very little visual distinction: you have to ask, am I looking at a long event or the ‘today’ highlight?
People who use calendars for work-related purposes typically want work-week focused views.
None of this is new. Which speaks to the people developing/designing this. (Or maybe they have incorporated this but the handful of screenshots aren't exposing them).
They aren't dogfooding this - or if they are - they aren't the power users - people whose typical day have more appointments scheduled than free time.
They need to seek out the power users so their design doesn't preclude use-cases (or at least make them very awkward).
Here's a freebie - for monthly view - the day that is highlighted should get a detailed day view as a sidebar.
Nor any way to view the week, starting with Today.
Fantastical, Readdle and Apple Calendar have slightly fresher UI that could be good inspiration.
And why do they have what looks like a maximize/zoom button, a "..." menu button and a close button? This is a desktop application – we have real window borders for resizing, real menus for menus and real close buttons provided by the window manager.
Google does it, I wish they went further. The calendar is a visual metaphor for time, let me interact directly with the visual metaphor, let me drag the boxes, resize them, etc.
I'd like to get back to having a desktop email and calendar client over using a browser all the time.
I’m preferring Evolution over it right now for Linux.
If you don’t need to deal with multiple email providers, your email provider might even have a better app. I’d rather use the FastMail desktop app but I have other email accounts with other providers.
A big pet peeve of mine is how Thunderbird is so bad at exporting your profile settings to multiple computers.
They've been talking about redesigning Thunderbird for years now, but I'm honestly not sure I've noticed any difference at all in my actual use.
Like is this just a mockup I'm not understanding correctly?
Traffic lights are one thing you shouldn’t mess with IMO.
In other words, I like them all as separate windows, while I compare websites, notes, on the phone, and then adding or editing all these things while talking to people too.
Making the Calendar view, an the list of emails as two separate windows would be amazing.
Thank you Thunderbird team!
Just another reminder what people who designs these things do not use them. Probably at all.
Useless left bar - eating space, useless top bar - eating much more limited vertical space, stupid arrows in BL corner without meaning or sense, stupid hamburger menu on the top right corner - because if you don't move the cursor a lot means you are not actually working.
