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  • I generally like it, but am I seeing right that the new event window is now a modal dialog? Why?? Composing a message is a normal that you can manage with your window manager and have multiple instances of - why not the even too?

    The use-case is obvious: I might be making a new copy of an event and want to go to a previous one to copy some template text from, or I want to make a bunch of similar events and it's easier to enter data in parallel than in series. Maybe I need to find information scattered in a few emails and copy it into the calendar entry.

    by franga2000
  • How is thunderbird these days? I haven't used it for about six years, but I've seen their redesign and recent work in passing here on HN.

    I'd like to get back to having a desktop email and calendar client over using a browser all the time.

    by jjice
  • A+ Thunderbird team! We absolutely needed an update. Maybe on the next moon mission NASA will send a functional email client instead of two broken ones.
    by downrightmike
  • Dear writers, please don't give me "## The Big Picture"
    by specproc
  • I was an Outlook user for nearly 20 years. Switch to macOS last year, and along with that went with Thunderbird. It does need some love, but grateful it existed. I like to look at my monthly calendar, open two events, and compare them. Sometimes, I like my monthly calendar visible all by itself, then I'll open emails to the far left or right, then maybe an event in the middle, or to the left.

    In other words, I like them all as separate windows, while I compare websites, notes, on the phone, and then adding or editing all these things while talking to people too.

    Making the Calendar view, an the list of emails as two separate windows would be amazing.

    Thank you Thunderbird team!

    by pcunite
  • About ten years late to mimic Google Calendar. Was hoping for something new.

    Fantastical, Readdle and Apple Calendar have slightly fresher UI that could be good inspiration.

    by ricardobeat
  • Personally, I like the Google design and I bet most users will be familiar with. It works. Do not reinvent the wheel and just make it efficient.
    by evilmonkey19
  • Still no calendar where “today” is visually distinct. It has the same faded background as a multi-hour event.

    Look,at the header image and glance in the middle of the Wednesday column vs the middle of Sunday’s or Monday’s column. Very little visual distinction: you have to ask, am I looking at a long event or the ‘today’ highlight?

    by vintagedave

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