Comments on: Lightning, Google Calendar, and calendering in Thunderbird

By: Colin Charles Agenda » Blog Archive » 10 Thunderbird add-ons I can’t live without

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:02:33 +0000

[...] LightningI certainly like having a built-in calendar in Thunderbird, and more importantly, it works with my Google Calendar. It could improve with offline support, and a bit, but for a fairly recent full review, read Lightning, Google Calendar, and calendering in Thunderbird. [...]

By: byte

byte — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:49:56 +0000

@danny: no, read, and write access :)

By: danny

danny — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:56:49 +0000

oooopps my extension was old and one way. forget about my ealier question thanks man…

By: danny

danny — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:55:09 +0000

Just to confirm, you only have read only access from Thunderbird right?

By: byte

byte — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:50:26 +0000

@cos: iCal Server is most definitely to blame and isn’t standard… I remember this from actually looking at it closely the last WWDC I attended (2006 I think). But I do hope that the Thunderbird 3 folk look closely to ensure that iCal Server and Thunderbird 3 just work

@Gen: Thanks for the links, I know Mozilla Messaging, because Marten Mickos is also on the board of directors ;) When can we be expected to see the magic of Thunderbird 3? I can’t hardly wait…

By: cos

cos — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:03:09 +0000

If only it worked with OS X Server 10.5’s iCal server. I don’t know whose fault it is, but i don’t particuarly have to care - Apple claimed iCal server was “cross-platform”, which might be true if it actually worked with anything else. Sunbird failed. So did Chandler. So much for sharing calendars with my Windows-using bosses…(also, iCal sucks keeps wanting to unlock my OS X keychain all the frigging time. i feel like I can’t win!)

you don’t use Evolution? what kind of Linux nerd are you? (I know, I know, I can’t stand it either…)

By: Gen Kanai

Gen Kanai — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:15:14 +0000

Hey Colin, great writeup. Just FYI, Thunderbird 3 is in development at the new Mozilla Messaging company (subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation.) David Ascher is heading up things there and he’s got calendar integration as a top priority.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2008-02-19-faq.html

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/

http://ascher.ca/blog/