[OT] Thunderbird 3 vs. 2

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

The kick-off meeting for Thunderbird 3:

"Thunderbird 2 is quite sluggish, has poor asynchronous execution of 
tasks, poor focus control, and annoying modal dialogs on error. What do 
we do for version 3?"

"Let's build on all that! We'll make Thunderbird 3 even more sluggish 
even on the best of machines. Let them wait for second with an old 
screen whenever they click on something."

"Excellent! While we're at it, let's make the selection colors such that 
the user never knows where the focus is. That, combined with the 
slugishness of the UI, will go a great job at confusing people."

"And how about this - let's even insert large delays at random while the 
user is typing an email. There's nothing better than typing out of sync 
with the screen!"

"Awesome! To make the deal sweeter, we'll replace the useful filter 
functionality with a full-blown search. That would require us to index 
all emails in the background thus making things even slower, and will 
confuse the heck out of everyone."

"Go Thunderbird 3!"


Sigh.

Andrei