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Re: [LUG] thunderbirds are go
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] thunderbirds are go
- From: comrade meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:23:20 +0100
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What reason?
Because
Well for the usual reasons - the code is still being cleaned up after
the big upgrade and the change in addon infrastructure particularly
means there are enough "complications" that the casual or non-technical
user might want to stay away for the moment.
Fortunately I'm neither of those things and like to be ahead of the game
testing things before my clients get their hands on them anyway. To
answer other (very sensible) queries about compatibility or suitability
of upgrading to Thunderbird 78 ahead of your distro's release: well,
don't do that, obviously. Backported/pre-release stuff is for those who
need or want the latest code and don't mind dealing with the technical
fall out.
You'd need to be on the various projects dev mailing lists and github
repos to know most of this but the show stoppers mentioned are all
non-events that I checked beforehand. The only Thunderbird addons any of
my clients or my own workflow relied on as it happens were the ones
mentioned:
Google Calendar Sync - didn't realise so many people used it but several
of my clients depend on it. For the Thunderbird version 78.1.1 I package
Google Calendar works fine with this xpi built from master*:
https://github.com/kewisch/gdata-provider
Enigmail - not needed, openpgp is now included in Thunderbird 78 and can
indeed be enabled with a simple config edit. I need this although I know
basically nobody else who actually uses PGP in email :[
gContactSync - partner for Google calendar basically to sync contacts
which luckily has already been ported to the new addon system
With those three issues - which to be fair were going to be problems for
me too if they weren't fixable - not actually being issues Thunderbird
78.1.1 is not just fully usable but already appreciably better than 68
for me so far. Believe it or not my favourite thing about it so far is
cosmetic - it no longer looks like absolute crap on my HiDPI monitors.
Everything else works just like Thunderbird always did, which is exactly
what I wanted. So far so good I guess.
* new code of conduct probably dictates I mean "main" now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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