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I've been using a fork of Thunderbird called Betterbird (https://www.betterbird.eu/) on Linux, mostly because I want to be able to minimize it to a systray icon. I know there are extensions like systray-x and birdtray, but I was having issues with these on Wayland. I wonder if this new version of Thunderbird finally added systray support on Linux/Wayland.

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I just switched away from it again after it got delisted from nixpkgs due to lack of development[0][1]

[0] https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.05&from=0&size=...

[1] Should be this one https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/351205

>due to lack of development

???

https://github.com/Betterbird/thunderbird-patches/commits/ma...

the nixos package is unmaintained; BetterBird itself is fine.

> I wonder if this new version of Thunderbird finally added systray

I'm waiting for this feature since when I used Thunderbird in Windows XP. At the time I used the MinimizeToTray addon...

I won’t switch to BetterBird because the person behind it seems off.

Feels a bit like switching to TempleOS.

>Feels a bit like switching to TempleOS.

That's... not a bad thing, though? Terry was an extremely competent engineer and programmer who designed his software to be as user-friendly, well-documented, and performant as possible.

I have conversed with Jörg, and he is blunt and fair in a good way (code itself is emotionless, after all). And, of course, he is highly competent. I have also conversed with several Mozilla teams, including Thunderbird, and the experiences were universally horrible, as in they lacked core competency. Naturally, YMMV.

Honestly I don't see the Terry vibes. It's just someone who's really, really into email clients lol.

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