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by Scott Armitage-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Hi all,

I like the concept of moving the compose dialog to a tab, as it makes much
more sense within a tabbed workflow. In addition, the built-in compose
dialog (Thunderbird 6.0.2) is *terrible*, and I would love something sleeker
to replace it.

Unfortunately, I am not ready to switch to Compose just yet, for a few
reasons:

   1. The interface is not yet much better than the default dialog; I find
   the editor far too busy, with too much emphasis on the HTML formatting. I
   think taking some cues from Google's editor implementations would be
   beneficial here.
   2. As I have found all to common in OSS projects lately, I feel there is
   too much white space, as well as too many "bubblies".
   3. Lack of integration with the built-in address book -- I agree that the
   address book needs to change as well, but I am not ready to move to two
   experimental projects simultaneously.

Good work, keep it up! Hopefully we can get something like this branched
into main.

-S

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