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[suggestion] Gnome-Calender integration into Thunderbird

Bug #174208 reported by Thermaltaker
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Sunbird
Won't Fix
Wishlist
lightning (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Wishlist
Unassigned
lightning-sunbird (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Wishlist
Unassigned
mozilla-thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi,

the feature of evolution that you can manage your appointments in the gnome-calender would be really nice to have in thunderbird and Lightning. Because much people use thunderbird instead of Evolution.

Greetz Therm

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In , Bugzilla-displague (bugzilla-displague) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121016 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier:

If Thunderbird can use Google as a back-end provider, why not Evolution? The fact that it has an open API and is entirely open-source should make it a first class provider.

An Evolution Data Server provider would give the user more application choice while maintaining a common storage mechanism in Gnome, Maemo, and other environments.

Calendaring should be simplest point at which to start. Appropriate bugs would have to be filed with Thunderbird for mail storage and contact management.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Try to access the evolution data server back-end through the calendering interface.
Actual Results:
It can not be done currently!

Expected Results:
A user should be able to see the same calendar in Evolution and Sunbird/Lightning when the evolution-data-server provider is used.

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In , Bugzilla-displague (bugzilla-displague) wrote :

I just noticed that Bug 408158 filed against Thunderbird also requests eds support. I don't think this bug (against Calendar) is a duplicate.

Read-only calendar support is possible through a work-around:

Add a Remote Calendar using the URI: file:///home/[username]/.evolution/[path_to_ics_file]

For example:
'file:///home/mjohansson/.evolution/exchange/mjohansson@spam+domain.com/personal/subfolders/Calendar/subfolders/My Calendar/cache.ics'

'file:///home/mjohansson/.evolution/calendar/local/system/calendar.ics'

I've only attempted either of these in read-only mode (which can only be set in the properties after creating the remote calendar).

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In , Philipp-bugzilla (philipp-bugzilla) wrote :

Sounds like a good idea, however extension fodder.

Nick Ellery (nick.ellery)
Changed in lightning:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in lightning-sunbird:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

What does this have to do with lightning? if you want evolution to be intergrated into tbird or lightning its a evolution request. Please give me more info on what you are looking for.

Changed in lightning:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in lightning-sunbird:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in mozilla-thunderbird:
status: New → Incomplete
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Thermaltaker (dennis-benndorf) wrote :

Lightning is the calender of thunderbird and this calender I want to communicate with the calenderapplet on the upper panel.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

not a thunderbird issue.

Changed in mozilla-thunderbird:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

connected to upstream bug => triaged.

Changed in lightning-sunbird:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in sunbird:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
In , Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek (liviopl-pl) wrote :

Would be nice to see Thunderbird save to both Google Calendar and provide this via EDS. Then GNOME's clock would show me the tasks and event ^^ .

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In , Martin Meyer (elreydetodo) wrote :

I'm not sure I'll be able to make the transition from Evolution to Thunderbird/Lightning without the clock applet integration.

I'll be trying the workaround but it would be nice if this was automatic or easily configurable.

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In , Philipp-bugzilla (philipp-bugzilla) wrote :

Extension (at least one way) exists, closing WONTFIX since we didn't fix this in core code. I've tried the extension and it works quite good :-)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/9656

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in sunbird:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

This is something that we will not fix, upstream would have to add the feature, they wont fix it in core code. Please read upstream bug for more info. here is what they suggest to use:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/9656

Changed in lightning-sunbird (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
In , Philipp-bugzilla (philipp-bugzilla) wrote :

*** Bug 428265 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in sunbird:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
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