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In 2023, #Thunderbird will reinvent itself with the “Supernova” release, featuring a modernized interface and brand new features.

One of the major improvements you can look forward to is an overhaul to our #calendar UI. Today we’re excited to give you a preview of what it looks like!

blog.thunderbird.net/2022/11/t…


Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design

One of the major improvements to look forward to in Thunderbird "Supernova" is a beautifully redesigned calendar UI. Here's your first look!
Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
#thunderbird #calendar
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Rich
Rich
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I'm excited for this. I would love to boot my dependence on outlook to the curb...

Will there be plugin support for things like zoom, onenote/evernote?

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Harald
Harald
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Looks better than now.

But it looks like multi-day events are still just repeated every day instead of one continued block spanning multiple days (thus longer titles better readable).

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Gabriel
Gabriel
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awesome! Couldn't live without thunderbird if I'm being completely honest. Easily the best email client I've ever used.
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Râu Cao ⚡
Râu Cao ⚡
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Do whatever you want, as long as you keep the multi-week view and multi-timezone support! 🙏
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Xanatos has moved
Xanatos has moved
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That new ui looks amazing can't wait to give it a try when the version will be there next year.
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Rigo Wenning
Rigo Wenning
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I was forced to switch from Kontact to Thunderbird. Kontact, Korganizer and Kmail2 had a very very nice UI, but the underlying protocol stack ate too much information. For thunderbird I was initially a bit lifted back to the nineties, but got used to it. Why do I bother writing it here?

The protocol stack of Thunderbird is rock-solid. This is the most important thing. Candy comes later. Hope that the supernova release will not break things.

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Patricia Young
Patricia Young
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I can't use Thunderbird anymore, and I've used the forums to no avail. I get a message 'Thunderbird is already running but not responding..." when it hasn't been used for months now. I've downloaded updates to no avail, same message. Win 10 user here - please help.
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CornyVanBeck
CornyVanBeck
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Marvelous. I honestly thought Thunderbird was discontinued? Loved the Client ever since
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Nicolas Taffin
Nicolas Taffin
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pleaaaase could just try to autocomplete persons (and their email address) by order of frequency decreasing NOT increasing 🥺
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Boris 🇪🇺🇺🇦
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it looks pretty cool. I wonder if there would be any improvement for the gmail support. The google calendar is notorious for not playing fair with any client apps.
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@boris_ We'd certainly love if Google would use open standards across the board. That would make our lives (and yours) easier.

The big issue right now is that the Tasks API only functions properly in Google-owned platforms. Is that what you're referring to?

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Boris 🇪🇺🇺🇦
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no, actually the bigger problems are with scheduling and rescheduling events with video calls. You can add the webex add-on to the google calendar and schedule video calls with it. I haven’t tried it in a while but Outlook was breaking those events if you tried to reschedule, practicality not updating the webex meeting schedule.
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@TheHolyTachanka Let us know if you have any questions!
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Justin 🇻🇦
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Awesome. Can't wait Thunderbird devs have been busy lately haven't they. People have been complaining about the UI for ages, but it seems like there have been a lot of big improvements on the way.
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@jforseth210 *nods* It's a massive undertaking because we need to pay off so much technical debt. It's not just a "skin-deep" overhaul!

And we've been graced with two years straight of generous donations from the community -- that allowed us to nearly double out staff this year!

Things are moving in a great direction.

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We're entering feature freeze at the end of the year, and then we'll do several months of polish.

So near the beginning of 2023, you'll start to see the new UI elements in our Daily and Beta channels.

But as for the "official" Stable release, probably July 2023.

This entry was edited (2 years ago)
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Robbie Cargill
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This is looking good so far! Intrigued to see how the rest of the UI is shaping up. I'd love to be able to go back to Thunderbird with a clean and modern UI.
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Rainio Forrest
Rainio Forrest
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That's great. The one thing that puts me off Thunderbird is the early 2000s interface (and the odd search). Regardless, It's better than everything else.
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Wupsala
Wupsala
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Really nice work on the ui....but...

..I would like to see a monthly overview for 2 or 3 month on the left side, like it is on Kontact (KDE) oder Evolution (Gnome). That might help me on having control over my dates.

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adam_turcsan
adam_turcsan
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Now, after that Gnome's calendar got usable enough, it is hard to convince me to give up that level of integration with the DE. If I set up TB's calendar I'd need a workaround for avoiding duplicate reminders, and lag between desktop app sync. Am I right? BTW it looks awesome, congrats!
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Proxfox Virtual Environment 🦊
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looks quite GTK-y (nothing wrong with that), is that because it's running on Gnome, and will have more native looking elements on mac/win, or is that just how it's going to look?
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Peter Vágner
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Please try to make sure screen reader #accessibility stays preserved. That the UI elements are clearly labelled and can be used with keyboard alone.
#Accessibility
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Mathias
Mathias
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looks really nice. I'm looking forward to using it.

Will there be also a new time picker widget for editing/setting the time of an event?

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Lanius
Lanius
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Wow, as soon as it's released, I might be jumping to Thunderbird as my e-mail client. Mailspring stopped working with Mailbox.org, so I only keep it for my work GSuite, and use my email accounts as PWAs in Ferdium, but it's far from perfect.
I mean, I'm not sure if I'm going to use calendar feature, but the new UI looks very promising.
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Wolf480pl
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looks like something designed for a touchscreen. Also the screenshot is 4K? Who has that big a monitor? I feel like on a normal screen it will be a huge waste of precious screen space. Is there going to be sth like a compact mode?
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@wolf480pl From the blog post:
"These current mock-ups were done with the “Relaxed” Density setting in mind, but of course a tighter interface with scalable font-size will be possible. "
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Wolf480pl
Wolf480pl
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that's great to hear. I'm still worried it may end up being deprecated like Firefox's compact mode, but at least there's hope.
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Looks good, but I hope the extension API doesn't change again that all devs will be forced to update stuff and some won't and so good ones will again drift to meaninglessness 😵‍💫
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JamesAlderman
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UI is cool, but can it auto dial in to meetings, transcribe some notes to email me, and pipe in with “nope, nothing from me” just before the meeting ends?
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Aluatis
Aluatis
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Is O365 support standard in TB now?
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Peter Vágner
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@Aluatis By default @Thunderbird can retrieve Microsoft 365 / Exchange server emails using imap and send messages through SMTP, autheticating with xoauth (so called modern authentication by Microsoft). For tighter integration such as calendars and contacts you need an addon addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/t…
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Aluatis
Aluatis
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@pvagner I belive I used that in the past. Would be nice if it was official to thunderbird, even if I had to buy a license direct from the TB team for the ActiveSync stuff.
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Peter Vágner
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@Aluatis I think it uses OWA for accessing exchange online rather than active sync but yes, you are right it should get more official status.
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@etrigna63 We'll be here when you're ready to make the switch. Have a peaceful and fun retirement!
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eternaltyro
eternaltyro
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when can we expect early design experiments on Beta?
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@eternaltyro We don't have a firm target for Beta yet, but some of the elements should start creeping into Daily by December.

We'll keep you posted on the Beta front.

@eternaltyro
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vernickelt🌻
vernickelt🌻
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I like the modern look, I noticed that the tabbed layout is not visible in the screenshots. Will the tabs stay with us in Supernova?
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