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Colin Charles Agenda: Lightning, Google Calendar, and calendering in Thunderbird

  • Marnie Hartill · 1 year ago
    Hey, I read your post while doing a search research on which is better: running gmail through the Firefox browser or using Thunderbird? I use Google Calendar too, and found Lightening interesting. But You forget that Google Calendar's lack of combatibility with tasks can be remedied with RTM (Remember the Milk) Add Ons. I love it. Remember the Milk is awesome and I even added it to my Gmail screen in Firefox. After some research, I've realized the support for Thurderbird is waning since Mozilla is turning towards more innovations in Firefox browsing. For example, PRISM has really hit the discourse and I recently downloaded it. PRISM allows you to run any firefox browser page as a seperate program. So I can create a Gmail, a GCalendar, and a RTM application for each, click on the Start Menu, Alt-Tab and go. It's a good solution. So I'm opting not to use Thunderbird afterall. Why? I would have to download it at work and at home, and at the guest office... and.... Why do all this if I can run it all through Firefox? Yeah offline work is important too... but being offline sucks enough that I know how to use a printer or a sticky note. So it sounds like it's time for us to let go of Thunderbird.
  • Gen Kanai · 1 year ago
    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...

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

    http://ascher.ca/blog/
  • cos · 1 year ago
    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...)
  • byte · 1 year ago
    @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...
  • danny · 1 year ago
    Just to confirm, you only have read only access from Thunderbird right?
  • danny · 1 year ago
    oooopps my extension was old and one way. forget about my ealier question thanks man...
  • byte · 1 year ago
    @danny: no, read, and write access :)