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- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -11/+61Public Service Announcement: the use of caps and multiple exclamation marks greatly decreases the quality and readability of Digg, and makes your submission look childish or spammy.
Now back to your regularly scheduled discussion forum. - geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31Neither. Sunbird is the standalone component of Mozilla's Calendar project (like Thunderbird or Firefox). Lightning is the name of the pluggable version that will be part of the Mozilla Suite (and thusly will integrate into Thunderbird, Firefox, Seamonkey and Sunbird).
Calendar is written in XUL as well, so it should integrate well into other XUL applications (such as Democracy for controlling more scheduled downloads, etc), but right now it ties into a lot of other Mozilla applications, so it might not be so ideal yet. - jj44, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18There are 3 calendar apps for mozilla:
1) Sunbird - stand-alone
2) Calendar - extension for Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey that is basically Sunbird added on to the application
3) Lightning - which will eventually integrate with Thunderbird to create an Outlook-like application although most of these features aren't yet enabled. - hotpepper, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20Actually, it's a calendar.
- frontpage, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19I think you mean VERSION 0.1!!!!!
- GeekyGirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Keep in mind that this is an early version. Great for people who want to try it out or test it; however, do not convert your real data yet! There are a number of known issues that result in data loss and other buggy features. For now, play around with it and submit your bugs back to the community.
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Why are they working on 3 separate calendar apps? Seems inefficient.
- sahaskatta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9so is this replacing SunBird or is it just a new name?
- djdole, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14Digg points for mark1372.
After reading the submitter's post, my immediate thought was. "OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!" - joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"This thing has so much potential but it is a long long way from usable. "
Heh. Well, so is Outlook. ;o) - Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This is cool, but I'm even more impressed by what the people are doing with Chandler
http://chandler.osafoundation.org - Philoushka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Money quote from the article:
There are KNOWN DATALOSS BUGS in the calendaring code.
* Don't trust these builds with important calendaring or mail data - pardusman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This' cool.. let me try ;-)
If you want to see scrrenshot here is; http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/7948/thunderbird0uj.png - SmeRndmGy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It is a thunderbird extension, for thunderbird, so having thunderbird might help. Right now it is just a basic calendar and agenda/to do list integrated into thunderbird. No real integration with the email part, its just there in the same app. Still, it looks good so far and will probably only get better.
- UnlivedPhalanx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6This will be great once it is finished up, version 0.1 is hardly a release of any sort.
- socket, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I'll wait for Google's CL2. Peace.
- Quarks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4New screenshots: http://beryllium.ca/
- Luuvitonen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I remember 0.2 of Phoenix (before it was called FireBird and before that was called FireFox) being quite good already. While the version number is small it might be worth trying out. Though data loss is unacceptable and that might change things a lot.
- dogas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It would be totally sweet if it can recognize exchange meeting emails. I run linux and thunderbird at work and frequently miss meetings because of that!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You know what they [mozilla] need to fix which has been pissing me off for a LONG time now about Mozilla Firefox...
The bug in which you sometimes lose functionality of arrows, copying and pasting, and when you press ' the find bar pops up. This bug has been in every version since at least 1.0.7
grrr... ok I'm done ranting - gronne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just installed it. Looks pretty good for the first beta release.
- djdole, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5God help us if the submitter ever discovers SourceForge...
He'll cause a one person digg-effect on Digg itself by submitting a !!!! story for every new VERSION out there. - liava, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It seems inefficient only because you assume the Mozilla developers don't know what they are doing. :-p
Hint: three different applications that do the same thing don't need to have different code bases. - galfridus73, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Actually, I would say that it is... Calendar was an extension that basically just ran Sunbird in TB and Firefox (and SeaMonkey, for those of you still holding onto the old suite). Lightning actually takes the Calendar project and integrates it into TB as opposed to it launching another app.
Keep in mind, this is supposed to be a tech news site first-and-foremost, and testing doesn't happen if people don't know the projects are out there to test. So, yes, a 0.1 release is VITAL to be announced in a community like Digg. - whowantthefunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They need to give it a better name...don't get me wrong Lightning is cool. But we have firefox and thunderbird. So we have an elemental "thing" -> fire, thunder followed by an animal type -> fox, bird....lightning is cool for the first part (especially since it plugs into thunderbird, so thunder and lightning) but then the second part should tie in with bird...So something that you always associate with a bird...I was thinking Hawk...it's a kind of bird, but think about it...ThunderBird w/ LightningHawk extension.
- aforonda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2y use anything but a web app like yahoo cal or something? I just don't want more stuff on my hard drive.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Glad to get an update on the calendar I've been waiting for. We need a real replacement for Outlook Exchange Server & clients here, and once the CalDAV support and device sync is working, we'll be able to go to a complete Mozilla solution.
Firefox + Thunderbird + Lightning = no more need for MS groupware! - apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Its been a while since I checked out chandler. I looks like its coming along very well!
- nnonix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This will put Thunderbird in direct competition with Evolution. This is good and considering it may get the Evolution folks off their ass, very-good.
- joshpape, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm still waiting for an online contact management (address book) system. I cant find one anywhere online that isnt attached to an online emial system. Does anyone know of one? Google is letting me down here as my searches bring nothing up.
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Cool, but less exclaimation points next time.
- thegeekpea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree... Y! Calendar works fine for me. When you use multiple computers, having it on the web is a must.
- MOGua, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Last time I ran Chandler, it took up about 80megs of memory...but that was version 0.60.
The latest version is 0.61. - Remadot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Chandler handles events, either tasks, emails, or appointments as standalone events allowing information to be structured and unstructured at the same time.
I am yet to see such an approach in any other PIM. Chandler rules. - galfridus73, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just installed it on my Thunderbird install (and that's just for testing purposes)... but it looks good. Definitely head-and-shoulders past the Calendar extension for TB.
- tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The whole point of Lightning is to resolve those things.
- vigilanteweb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Agreed. I'm very interested when it gets to be a stable release. For now I'm holding off installing to make sure it doesn't eat my data. But when it comes out... I think bloated Office will be in trouble.
- foxter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This looks very promising and I will definitely use it in the future, but submitting version 0.1 is lame.
- silenceHR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i installed it in my Thunderbird and i am testing it, but it looks pretty good, much better then last Sunbird i tried. Maybe it is 0.1 release, but thnx to person who posted it. I just reorganized my Thunderbird completlly after installing Lightning and now its much more useful to me then before.
I really needed something like this.
As for why not using web service... simple, i start Thunderbird and check my mail and its pretty nice to have something like this sitting inside, if i am to use any web service, then i have to start my browser, go to it's page, login and so on. As for HDD space, c'mon, this is 0.5MB. Not like it's gonna eat my HDD. If i can install games that take 3,4 or more GB, then i can spare 0.5MB for something much more useful. - ProgrammerJason, on 08/28/2009, -0/+1I used to use Thunderbird. Great email client, but doesn't it seem like Mozilla is late to the game? Adding a calendar to your email client. I am pretty sure I had that is 2000 or before.
- MiamiGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ahh so many calendars to choose from. I have calendar installed in my FireFox and ThunderBird and Sunbird installed separately. I tried an earlier release of lightning for Thunderbird and didn't like it much.
- jeffreym, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very nice calendar but how do you create, delete or sort the Todo list?
Is there any documentation for this app? - djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Plaxo (http://www.plaxo.com/) is the only one I can think of.
It's not connected (directly) to any email system like yahoo's, google's, or hotmail's contact system, but they do partner with AOL's Aim, but that's optional.
In addition, you can request your contact info be updated by the particular person.
The trial is free, but they still want you to pay for extras (read: not worth it).
...I don't use it anymore, but tried it out for a while and the concept is sound. :-/ - CanuckMakem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its nice... but until it syncs with my Crackberry I'm stuck with Outlook. :(
- UnclePow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is the link I found in the FTP directory to download it with: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8/windows-xpi/lightning.xpi
- filletophil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1off topic - what's the theme you're using there?
- FarcicalFart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use Evolution in Linux over thunderbird because of the lack of Calendar extension. (That doesn't mean I use Epiphany) However, this may move me over to thunderbird.
- fillup07, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I had not seen that yet, but I am a lot more impressed with that, just from seeing the screenshots.
- SQJTaipei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1kstagg... Lightning is an extension for Thunderbird.
Try again friend.
SQJ - ucg1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's better than not being able to read calendar invites at all.
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