Planned work for the 2024 release of Thunderbird.: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap
Only mention of rust: “Standalone Rust component experiment of a notes implementation in Thunderbird”
Other planned features of note
- Microsoft exchange support
- updated database allowing for modern conversation view
Thunderbird is already more than a mail program. It supports calendar, todo, contacts, multiple chat protocols etc. Notes are in line with features like todo I’d say
What chat protocols? Anything actually used? I tried their chat once but it didnt work with Matrix I think.
That they support Calendar is the result of CalDav I think. For some weird reason mail providers are often also CalDav providers, so you use the same account and that makes sense.
Although I would really like to have calendar and contacts as seperate apps. The combination is weird, and with some CSS it should be possible to have a single-purpose “app” with its own process ID and desktop entry with icon.
I dont know how to do that though, at least yet, as I dont know the CSS. But Libreoffice Flatpak fixed the “calc + writer shown as the same app” which is done via desktop entry stuff
