Mozilla Releases Mozilla Sunbird 0.2

Gentu writes "Along with the new Mozilla-Japan initiative and the release of Mozilla 1.8a3 today, the Mozilla team released the first 'official' beta release of Mozilla Sunbird, version 0.2, a stand-alone calendaring application (similar to Apple's iCal). There are two flavors of this project, one that works as a ~700 KB plugin to Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla (titled Mozilla Calendar) and the ~8 MB stand-alone calendaring application, Mozilla Sunbird (rate the apps over at GnomeFiles.org). These builds are the first to feature a new default theme, a new logo and the customizable toolbar functionality. Note that Sunbird is still an experimental technology preview that contain bugs, but it is pretty stable."

Comments

Strange math....

[wolfemi1]

I'm confused. If the plugin is ~700K, and the Firefox installer for Windows is ~4.6M, then how in the hell can the standalone Sunbird be ~8M, more over 3 megabytes more than the browser and plugin combined?

Re:no Palm support

[Davak]

Yeah, sync is a big thing these days.

I actually use yahoo's sync to backup by outlook contacts, calender, and to-do list. It's cheesy as hell, but it certainly does the job.

How can I publish my events on a remote server?
You can publish events from the calendar to an FTP server or a webDAV enabled webserver. You can also use the calendar to subscribe to these events as well.

If I can figure out what the heck a webDAV enabled webserver is, maybe I can drop yahoo...

/Off to google

Davak

Open Contacts format

[el-spectre]

Slightly OT: We have a standard mail format, standard calendar format... is there a standard phonebook/contact list format?

On topic, good job to the Sunbird team... While I have to live in a multi-OS world, it's nice to have both windows and linux versions of these apps, makes syncing a realistic thing.

Re:It's got my vote

[arafel]

I haven't used Mozilla mail in a while, but Thunderbird should be quite fast with only 1000 mails. There's a box at work with about 40,000 messages in it which I dump mail into now and again. As long as you let it generate an index for the mbox file, you're fine.

One message per file just seems like a huge step backwards. FidoNet had that, with the MSG format. It was unscalable, unworkable, and had big performance problems, which is why pretty much everyone migrated to another format, which kept all the messages in a single file. (There were other files which did indexing and so forth.)

For the maildir/mh stuff to be fast, you need a header cache of some kind. Once you have the cache, you might as well just use the mbox approach, which everything understands, is a lot easier on hard disks and filesystems, and is much easier to back up.

Obviously this is all just my opinion. But I'm right. ;-)

Don't forget Chandler

[sphealey]

When considering Free calendaring applications, don't forget to look at Chandler from the OSA Foundation. I wish they were moving a bit faster with usable releases though.

sPh

Enquireing minds.......

[Wapiti-eater]

Just installed Sunbird plug-in to my mozilla 1.7.2 on XP. In Mozilla, I go to window in the menu bar and I can click on Navigator, Email, etc. There're also 'short cut keys' listed in that menu.

Navigator --------- CTRL-1
Mail & Newsgroups - CTRL-2
Composer ---------- CTRL-4
Addres Book&nbsp -- CTRL-5
Calander ---------- CTRL-8
divider
IRC Chat ---------- CTRL-6

Question is: what're slots 3 and 7 set aside for? What's "out there" still?

Why don't they sign these things?

[Mark Hood]

Fireraccoon pops up a nice install window warning me not to install unsigned extensions, and an 'official' (albeit beta) extension from the Mozilla project themselves isn't signed?

And people wonder why Open Source isn't taken seriously. I've touched on this topic before, and while this isn't a security update, it would really show that the Mozilla Team were showing a little professionalism...

Mark "Karma to Burn" Hood