Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign

About ten years late to mimic Google Calendar. Was hoping for something new.

Fantastical, Readdle and Apple Calendar have slightly fresher UI that could be good inspiration.

Personally, I like the Google design and I bet most users will be familiar with. It works. Do not reinvent the wheel and just make it efficient.

So this is a new design, but it's at the design proposal stage and not yet implemented?

They've been talking about redesigning Thunderbird for years now, but I'm honestly not sure I've noticed any difference at all in my actual use.

Dear writers, please don't give me "## The Big Picture"

A+ Thunderbird team! We absolutely needed an update. Maybe on the next moon mission NASA will send a functional email client instead of two broken ones.

I was an Outlook user for nearly 20 years. Switch to macOS last year, and along with that went with Thunderbird. It does need some love, but grateful it existed. I like to look at my monthly calendar, open two events, and compare them. Sometimes, I like my monthly calendar visible all by itself, then I'll open emails to the far left or right, then maybe an event in the middle, or to the left.

In other words, I like them all as separate windows, while I compare websites, notes, on the phone, and then adding or editing all these things while talking to people too.

Making the Calendar view, an the list of emails as two separate windows would be amazing.

Thank you Thunderbird team!

Is it a full page of text to just say that they implemented the UI of Google Calendar?

...can someone tell me why the hell the macOS traffic lights are indented like that?

Like is this just a mockup I'm not understanding correctly?