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Mozilla Sunbird 0.5 Released
linux pickle writes "Mozilla has released version 0.5 of Sunbird, its calendar app. New features in this release include numerous stability and usage improvements, Google Calendar synchronization support, and much improved printing support. Check out the release notes or grab a copy."
Lightning, which is the Sunbird plugin for the Thunderbird email client, was also released.
Update as usual: Tools > Add-ons > Find Updates
Great work, guys!
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If you are dedicated it's possible to pull your appointments from an exchange server, covert to iCal, and then import them into Sunbird.
I still prefer KOrganiser, not least because it has an exchange plug in. Integration with the mail client is also better in my opinion.
In fact Kontact is overall a fantastic piece of software. My only gripe is the fact that it's handling of IMAP mailboxes is horrific, but I believe that is slated for a total revamp in KDE4.
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I'm sorry to report that Thunderbird/Sunbird is nowhere near ready to replace Exchange. Depending on your needs, it might be a good fit though.
I'd say download it and try it out. If it's too basic for your needs, and it probably is, then look at some of the open source groupware packages.
There's some neat open source groupware out there.
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Screenshots here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/s creenshot.html
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Maybe we could call it SeaMonkey or something... Hmm...
;)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
I know you know this exists, but it's polite to include a URL when you're sassing someone who doesn't.
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...which has nothing to do with news for nerds.
I love my sig.
what you're describing sounds a lot like what they wanted to do with XUL Runner. Each mozilla app could be packaged as a plugin for XUL Runner. So, you would have XUL Runner installed and then you could just download and install the firefox plugin, the thunderbird plugin, the sunbird plugin, etc... They had scheduled this for firefox 3, but it looks like it's not going to happen at least for now.2 007/05/xul_and_xulrunner_investment.html
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/
Getting off topic a little, but I'm surprised that during all the recent talk of Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX, no one brought up XUL or WebKit as an alternative to a rich application framework(don't know what else to call them...). Neither of these is that ready to compete (mainly because of multimedia issues) with flash and silverlight, but they're no less ready than JavaFX at the least.
Exchange is a messaging/calendaring/groupware server. Thunderbird/Sunbird are email and calendar client apps.
They're entirely differnt types of software and incapable of replacing one another.
What you're thinking of is Outlook. I knew what you meant, but maybe you could act like the words in our language actually have some kind of meaning.
Should have looked before I posted. Bidirectional access to Google Calendar from Sunbird is possible with the Provider for Google Calendar extension...