Comments on: Sunbird 0.7 is Impressive

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:50:07 +0000

It’ll be more popular if they make a release called “1.0?. 0.x makes it look more betaish.

I think they are doing that because it isn't quite ready for general consumption yet. They want to get a majority of the bugs squashed and have unique features implemented before they break the big 1.0 milestone. Just like with Firefox.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:52:16 +0000

It’ll be more popular if they make a release called “1.0″. 0.x makes it look more betaish.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:12:55 +0000

I’ve never actually seen a way to wrap the text, although that is a feature that I would like as well. And unfortunately Sunbird/Lightning haven’t become popular enough where extensions are being made to circumenvent the minor issues. As of right now there are only 29 extensions.

By: Emil Hunefalk

Emil Hunefalk — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:55:13 +0000

Sorry for a double post – actually started to write the previous to ask this: Is there a way to wrap text entries in Lightning? I have a few long entries in the calendar, and without wrapping it looks something like “E: Meeting with E…” (no, I won’t have a meeting with myself, the other E refers to the person I’ll meet with)

I actually used to have the same problem with Google calendar, but found an extension to “fix it” (sometimes the text of 2-3 entries appear on top of eachother)

By: Emil Hunefalk

Emil Hunefalk — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:45:42 +0000

This is really a major improvement compared to the previous version of Lightning. I had some major bugs with that, and even though I believe some were related to the Tbird theme I was using, others were clearly a “Lightning feature”. Really nice work from the dev guys on this one – I’m finally thinking about trying offline calendars again (still syncing online of course)

I’m still getting a few duplicate entries when importing/syncing online calendars (Google Calendar in this test, has happened with other online calendars before), but at least now it’s much easier and faster to remove the extra post.

So, how do I get the work calendar synced with this? For some reason the company is stuck on MS products, so of course we have Exchange, Outlook etc, but if possible I’d like to stay away from that at home, especially since I’m collecting info on moving completely to Linux (Sabayon or Ubuntu) at home, but still want to be up to date…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:12:57 +0000

Sunbird is the most impressive desktop calendar that I’ve used. I’m a bit disappointed with Vista’s built-in calendar application, and would have expected them to at least outdo Sunbird. They definitely didn’t though.

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By: KylesCove

KylesCove — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:39:02 +0000

Good stuff! I’ve been holding off on using Sunbird because it didn’t impress me that much, but I am going to give it another shot!