In this Bugzilla comment, Thunderbird's "Director, Desktop & Mobile Apps" Mr. Alessandro Castellani, writes (quote):
"Apologies for dropping the ball on this, we were working on a million other things 😅"
Let's see what other balls he or the project dropped in no particular order:
- Movemail support
- CardDAV categories
- Working Linux system tray support
- Complex search terms
- Compose Window background
- Thread connection lines
- Menu bar on top
just to name a few from the last few years.
He goes on to bad-mouth Betterbird features, like the advanced "Quick Filter" which allows not only to invert tags, but also other buttons (unread, starred, in-address-book, etc.) as well as text filters. He calls that (quote):
"weird hidden CTRL+click and ugly red bars UI".
Well, Alex, we will see how well your proposed solution will work when it arrives in 2037. Apparently you're dusting off the original solution from 2016, which was rejected back then. Have you realised that "weird hidden Ctrl+Click" UI is already present today when negating individual tags? And the strike-trough already exists, too.
As for his (quote): "I will also add a bunch of tests for this feature". Perfect, also, please instruct your release management to actually look at test results before shipping a release. Many time releases get shipped without analysing permanent test failures.
And what are the million things you've been working on? To the deliver the second rewrite of account creation, that was so bad that it had to be disabled in the ESR version? Or rewriting the calendar UI yet again? How about making sure that Thunderbird users will live long enough to see features that have been requested for 20+ years, some going back to the past millennium.
So funny that our project's CEO actually took part in hiring Alex for the project back in 2018.