thunderbird

Weeks ago, Mozilla announced a new approach that is to be adopted by Thunderbird, meaning, the Thunderbird developers are to be focused on security and critical development for Thunderbird, while allowing interested developers to progress on and enrich Thunderbird's components.

Yet, it seems that official development on Ubuntu's default email client is happening, furthermore, aimed at relevant parts of Thunderbird.

Weeks ago, Thunderbird introduced the ability to add big-sized attachments stored in Ubuntu One, behavior followed by Dropbox (via an add-on).

FileSwap Filelink is a handy extension that allows the user to utilize www.FileSwap.com for Thunderbird attachments, a free online service usable with or without an account.

Months ago, Mozilla developers announced Australis, a new theme that is to be adopted in the near future by Firefox and Thunderbird, theme containing exciting new fancy visual enhancements with rounded corners, monochrome icons, refreshed "blocks", etc.

At the moment, Australis is partially implemented in Thunderbird, Ubuntu's default email client, that has gained rounded tabs in its top area, addition expressed as part of the upcoming Australis.

Weeks ago, Thunderbird introduced support (labeled as Filelink) to store big-sized files (as attachments) via powerful online services, such as Ubuntu One, meaning, sending an email with a big-sized attachment can be easily achieved by selecting Ubuntu One as the online storage place.

The mentioned functionality is free of charge, requiring only a regular user account (when using Ubuntu One).

Ubuntu is definitely a place where "real" actual innovation plays an important role, consequently, the developers are constantly landing new exciting technologies, exciting for both regular users (Dash, launcher, Alt+Tab Switcher, etc) and the whole world (Ubuntu for Android, Ubuntu One, etc).

Bringing creative innovations naturally triggers an accommodation process, where "things" are progressively shaped and put in order, thus touching (first) the frequently/most used applications that play a critical part in both the Ubuntu values and users' usage patterns.

Days ago, Mozilla released the first BETA in the 15 series for Thunderbird, introducing exciting fresh features, such as Ubuntu One integration (for attachments), and long-awaited user interface enhancements, like the new enabled-by-default Australis theme (especially visible on Thunderbird's toolbar).

Weeks ago, Mozilla announced a new strategy plan for Thunderbird, that is to be community-based in the future, community-based as related to new features, yet, Mozilla to continue to sustain Thunderbird with security and stability-specific development.

Hours ago, a "shocking" Mozilla announcement has been published (more or less intended), mainly stating "Mozilla is focusing a lot of its efforts towards important web and mobile projects, while Thunderbird remains a pure desktop only email client. We have come to the conclusion that continued innovation on Thunderbird is not a priority for Mozilla and that the most critical needs for the product are on-going security and stability.

Zeitgeist is a powerful tool specialized in logging events, in the sense of keeping track of user's file interactions, such as opening text files, images, playing music tracks, copied folders, etc, events organized in a database from where applications, if it is a requirements, use them in useful scenarios like providing a Dashboard in Ubuntu's Gedit with most frequently used text files, last opened files in the Dash's home view, etc, bundle of actions made possible by sources/datasources/plugins provided by default by Zeitgeist in Ubuntu.

Thunderbird, the versatile email client, has been updated to another interesting release, version 13 final, continuing its road towards adding new features.

The new Thunderbird 13 introduces two new features: