Mozilla Sunbird 0.7 and Lightning 0.7 calendars released

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Mozilla Sunbird 0.7 and Lightning 0.7 calendars released

by Brad Linder Oct 25th 2007

Mozilla's open source calendar programs Sunbird and Lightning just keep getting better and better. Sunbird is a standalone application for Windows, Linux, and Mac, while Lightning is a calendar plugin for the Thunderbird e-mail client.

Sunbird and Lightning 0.7 are out today, and they feature a new event/task dialog, a new event summary dialog, and roughly a billion other new features and bug fixes. OK, more like 252. One nice touch is that events in the same time slot are shrunken so they fit in the display.

And as CyberNet points out, there's also a new version of the Google Calendar plugin for Sunbird and Lightning. The add-on lets you write data to a Google Calender using your desktop calendar client.

[Thanks Nikolay!]

Tags: calendar, Lightning, Lightning 0.7, Lightning0.7, Sunbird, Sunbird 0.7, Sunbird0.7, Thunderbird

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Matt said 12:33PM on 10-26-2007

Gotta give you guys a thanks. Between this and the Goosync article from yesterday, I'm all synced up between Google, my Windows Mobile phone, and Thunderbird. And to think I almost quit trying to do this last week and switched to Outlook.

Keep up the good work!

Saad Raza Abbasi said 12:46PM on 10-26-2007

"One nice touch is that events in the same time slot are shrunken so they fit in the display."

Wasn't this already in 0.5??? cuz my 0.5 version does this trick too ...

Jeff Best said 9:44AM on 10-27-2007

I have to take issue with your statement that this tool keeps getting better and better. For version 0.7 they have changed the position of the calendar widget in the mail view so that it now consumes some of the horizontal space in the "Vertical" view. I use all 1920 pixels of horizontal space that I have for mail, thank you very much, and having a plug-in widget stealing some of this for its functionality is completely unacceptable. I could find no way of restoring its position to below the scrollable pane containing my mail accounts and local folders, where the space it used was an acceptable loss, so I have had no choice but to completely uninstall the add-on.

Fortunately, and coincidentally, I have been developing my own calendar widget for websites, and this happens to be in a suitable state for deployment, so I cannot see any reason why I would bother with Lightning again. I already have an Outlook license that I avoid using as part of a deliberate attempt to avoid using software from the convicted Microsoft, (in Europe, anyway), so I really don't care about the Lightning and Sunbird team trying to replicate Outlook.

julian said 4:51PM on 10-27-2007

i cant seem to get more than the default google calendar to load cause when it asks for a password the "non-default" calendars dont work

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