Re: Mozilla Sunbird Application Revival

On 18/10/2012 22:34, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm working on reviving the Sunbird application and making it new and
> improved! Any developers and coding experts and anyone who worked on
 > Sunbird in the past please shoot me an email if you'd be interested.
 > We're going to work on improving user interface and personalization as
 > well as speed, accuracy, and everything that makes Firefox and
 > Thunderbird so popular.

Rather than reviving Sunbird as-is, why not try things a little differently?

One of the problems with Sunbird and Lightning together was the 
duplication of the UI code and maintaining both together.

Thunderbird is able to cope with tabs now, with a bit of work, I think 
you could could tweak Thunderbird and Lightning so that you could have a 
mode where Lightning was the default and you could effectively hide all 
the mail functions (unless the user wanted them).

I think there's a few advantages that makes it worth doing; you wouldn't 
need two UIs, if/when Lightning becomes non-binary you wouldn't be 
needing to compile anything, you'd have the capability to do SMTP for 
invites if you wanted it etc.

There are obviously some disadvantages, like having to load the 
Thunderbird binaries, but I think that's outweighed by the advantages 
you get in development.

Mark