Pete Zaitcev ([info]zaitcev) wrote,
@ 2009-04-03 10:53:00
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Thunderbird and patch corruption

Bryan Clark was kind enough to point to Mozilla bugs 141983 and 204478 in an e-mail. Honestly I had no idea that the problem had such as storied past! The two nutcases went on about it for more than 10 years, if you count the postings to newsgroups.

It looks obvious that breaking a standard-compliant implementation is not going to happen, but even after reading these long bugs I'm still unclear on why a UI element "do not corrupt my messages" cannot be added (together with "don't send HTML" — could even be the same checkbox).

Of course, nothing of this would've mattered if Evolution weren't such a steaming pile of fail. Seems like a shining case of competition between free software projects not producing a good result. What is a kernel hacker to do?


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[info]k001
2009-04-03 07:42 pm UTC (link)
There are some bugs in Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird that have a long long beard. I guess this is because a percentage of users suffering from the particular bug is so small that no one cares. Say, who cares about patch corruption — 99% of all users do not even know what 'patch' means (aside from the patchwork art).

A few number of bugs are hitting Cyrillic users. The most famous one is inability to use shortcuts like Ctrl+W, Ctlr+T etc when your layout is switched to Cyrillic. There was even a workaround in a form of plugin.

Now, good guys from mozilla.ru are offering money for fixing particular bugs. See http://mozilla.ru/contribute/bounty.html for details. A great example of their success is that shortcuts bug which was fixed.

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[info]zaitcev
2009-04-03 10:39 pm UTC (link)
If I understand Mozilla's position on this, the patch mode is more of a feature than a bug. Current Tbird works correctly, it's just incompatible with what hackers expect from a mail client. One little checkbox in preferences ought to fix that.

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