On 26 October 2010 23:35, Zugravu Gheorghe <[email protected]> wrote:
> And as a small comment: Thunderbird is free (as in freedom) application > and allows to do whatever manipulation with the code (and there are a > bunch of thunderbird customization already available there) - thus if > there is a need this need can solved by the community. - And Wikimedia > could make a call for improvements in the code of TB, which I believe > would have be taken into consideration by the developers. And more > people could have used the results of that - thus generating a better > and smoother application (as in the wikipedia articles). It is indeed theoretically possible to make Thunderbird as good as Gmail and Google Calendar. In practice, no-one's managed to do so in six years, despite quite a lot of effort. This suggests that although possible, it may not in fact be feasible. The necessary condition for a move to Thunderbird instead would be an existence proof, i.e. a build that is as useful a tool as the Google tools. Which, note, are not even proper applications, but browser pages. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
