Perhaps only mildly interesting but I just did an apt show for birdtray on Debian 13 and got this in the second paragraph of the description:
It is a nasty hack – an external process looking at Thunderbird’s insides, it suffers from problems like noticing new mails only after a delay, having to restart Thunderbird just to hide its window, etc – you’d want to use an extension like firetray instead – but, it is likely that support for Thunderbird XUL extensions will be dropped soon, possibly by the time you read these words.
Not used to seeing this kind of language in the Debian repos tbh.
I appreciate this kind of straightforward honesty.
Yeah, part of the reason I like open-source. The devs don’t need to sell you anything, so they can just tell you that what they made is a steaming pile of garbage.
i got my hand slapped for describing a project that i put together for an old-silicon employer in the recent past; i reverted it back just before i left. lol