Here's a quick look at how our redesigned app menu (e.g. "Hamburger" menu) is progressing.
On the left is Thunderbird 102.
On the right is Thunderbird 111 from our Daily channel.
(Both running on Linux.)
Hopefully you'll notice it just LOOKS better. Crisper font readability, and matching icons for each action.
Update notifications and Sync sign-in populate the top, and it's now much faster to get to your Density and global Font Size settings.
@thunderbird The one thing I really want on #Thunderbird is the ability to disable ALL telementry and other unknown connections. The only place Thunderbird should be connecting to is my email provider's POP and SMTP servers. If it wants to connect to anything else there should be a way to get a full explanation of where it is going, why it is going there, and ther ability to block that connection if it is doing things I don't want it to do. I definitely do NOT want it trying to sync anything to any online cloud service!
(Yes, I know some people prefer using IMAP, that's fine. And if there is a connection that ONLY checks for updates to Thunderbird and does nothing else that would be fine too, but as it is Thunderbird just wants to connect to various thunderbird.net, mozilla.com, and firefox.com addresses with no explanation of why or what it's doing, so those get denied in Little Snitch.)
Basically Thunderbird needs to be much more transparent about what it's connecting to, and give users the opportunity to opt out without having to use external connection blockers. The "just trust us" mentality that many developers have just doesn't cut it in these times, particularly for anyone who values #privacy.
@Lunatech @thunderbird
This is a concern even when composing messages. For instance: When inserting an image URL, #Thunderbird 102 makes at least 2 HTTP requests to the remote image server before the message is even sent!