[OT] Thunderbird 3 vs. 2

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
news:hn9be6$3128$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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!"
>

That's exactly how I feel about 90% of software these days.

(In that light, it's probably no surprise why I'm so damn bitchy and 
stubborn about things so much of the time ;) )