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Mozilla Lightning Plans to Unify Mail & Calendar

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the here's-hoping-it-works-out dept.

Neil writes "The Mozilla Foundation has published an initial roadmap for 'Lightning', the project to integrate its calendar application Sunbird with its email application Thunderbird."

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  1. New? by Adelbert · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought a calendar was already available for Thunderbird as a plugin.

    Anyway, I only really use web-based email. I have no need for an email client. Will Sunbird still have stand-alone releases?

    1. Re:New? by ILikeRed · · Score: 2, Interesting

      And if Palm did not have their head up their arse, they would have dropped their shitty desktop app, ported Evolution to OS X themselves, open-sourced hotsync, and be selling a hell of a lot more pda's then they do now.

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    2. Re:New? by nine-times · · Score: 4, Interesting
      I think if ANYONE would port Evolution to OSX, you'd see it capture a decent share of whatever OSX machines are in corporate settings (for what that's worth). Entourage seriously stinks. Microsoft didn't even release Exchange connectivity until Apple started providing limited support through their "Mail".

      Even then, Exchange support is pretty well crap. They've just cobbled together the IMAP support and LDAP support so that you can set them both up with one "Account settings" wizard. Gee, thanks. I still have to manually clear out my keychain every now and then to keep Entourage from locking my Windows account.

      And don't get me started on Palm. So much potential, they even bought out Be, and they haven't done jack. Their new models bump up the RAM a little. Wowwie! I with they'd get a clue, toss the Hotsync method of transferring files, get rid of their Palm Desktop software (like you said), support OSX properly, and make a useful product for once. Open-source BeOS while you're at it. Instead it looks like they're just going to move to Windows Mobile and compete directly with Axims and iPaqs.

  2. Thank god by DoorFrame · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's about time. Now all they've got to do is make a version of the mail program for my palm pilot/windows mobile device and I can stop using Outlook.

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  3. "Integration" by oGMo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The roadmap says:

    Lightning 0.2
    • Better Thunderbird integration
      • email<->task linkage
      • IMIP support
    • Improved CalDAV support

    My first thought at seeing the article was "integration? I thought the point was to separate them", but this seems to mean "integrate" like "let's make them talk better".

    The article on the other hand seems to misunderstand and say "the combined application" and imply they're building one big Thunderbird/Sunbird conglomerate. I don't think this is the case, reading the roadmap. Anyone have more data on this?

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  4. Dogfood? by TheLoneIguana · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Calendar:Lightning:0.1
    From MozillaWiki

    This is the current list of things to do for 0.1, in priority order:

            * place all precautionary / compatibility notices
            * blog about nightlies; link to from wiki
            * fix all major dataloss bugs
            * figure out versioning / compatibility / build plan
            * fix dogfood bugs
            * forums, calendar blog post about nightlies
            * announce to mozillazine
            * fix all known dataloss bugs
            * fix remaining blockers
            * release 0.1rc1

    What exactly is a "dogfood bug," in this context?

  5. Why? by pmike_bauer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why is an integrated calendar and communications product a "good thing".
    Why not include a file manager and image editor while we're at it?

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  6. Emulating Outlook 2003? by vertinox · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The one question you would have to ask would it support an ecxhange server?

    If not... Can they pull of "Exchange-like" behavior with calenders and meetings on a pop server?

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  7. Re:Why not by phoenix_rizzen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And another project takes a page out of the KDE development book. :) This is exactly the process taken by the Kontact project. A container application that integrates multiple separate applications into a cohesive whole. You can run the individual apps (KMail, KAddressbook, KNotes, Akregator, Todo, Journal, KNode, etc) as separate applications, or you can run Kontact which provides a nice sidebar with links to each component, and gives you a single window for everything.

    Best of both worlds: those that want individual apps can use them as such, and those that like the "everything under the sun integrated together" can use it as such.

  8. Another name suggestion by einhverfr · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mozilla was a contraction of "Mosaic Killer"

    So why not Attilla
    "Outlook Killer"

    Besides, Attilla sounds like it would kick #$%

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