4/12/2006
Thunderbird and Lightning
It’s been a while since I’ve looked at the state of calendaring with Mozilla Thunderbird (e.g.: Mozilla Calendar, Sunbird, and Lightning). I was hoping that they had made amazing strides in that time.
Well they’ve made a lot of progress, but it’s not stable yet. I installed a Thunderbird 3.0 nightly trunk build and a Lightning 0.1 extension on my PowerBook with OS X 10.4.6. Fired it up and now there was a nice little calendar in the Thunderbird UI. Cool! Let me import my calendar from a remote iCal file via WebDAV. Worked! Cool! But then it popped up 20 or so windows for past-due alarms. Clicking the “Dismiss” or “Dismiss All” button crashes Thunderbird. Every time. Sigh. Maybe I’ll check back in a couple of weeks.
I should probably also take another look at Chandler, which was butt ugly and not very useful last time I looked at it, but maybe it’s better now.
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I think the important thing to keep in mind is that all calendaring sofwtware sucks. Once you adjust to that notion, and are simply looking for ones that “suck less”, things go much more smoothly.
Yes, all calendaring software and all email software.
“All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.” -the author of Mutt, circa 1995
Cool. Looking forward to the next update!