Mozilla Sunbird 0.5 Released
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kdawson
on Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:56 AM
from the hot-date dept.
from the hot-date dept.
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."
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Elektroschock writes "The two core developers of Thunderbird have left Mozilla. Scott McGregor made a brief statement: 'I wanted to let the Thunderbird community know that Friday October 12th will be my last day as an employee of the Mozilla Corporation.' Meanwhile, David Bienvenu blogged: 'Just wanted to let everyone know that my last day at The Mozilla Corporation will be Oct. 12. I intend to stay involved with Thunderbird... I've enjoyed working at Mozilla a lot, and I wish Mozilla Co and the new Mail Co all the best.' A few month ago Mozilla management considered abandoning their second product and setting up a special corporation just for the mail client. Scott was more or less supportive. David joined in. While Sunbird just released a new version no appropriate resources were dedicated to the missing component. And while Thunderbird became the most used Linux mail client it has been abandoned by Mozilla for 'popularity reasons'. Both messages from David and Scott do not sound as if the founders will play any role in the Thunderbird Mail Corporation. What happened to Mozilla? Is it a case of pauperization through donations?"
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My god this is groundbreaking news (Score:1, Funny)
(http://www.luelinks.net/)
Lightning Is Released, Too (Score:5, Informative)
Update as usual: Tools > Add-ons > Find Updates
Great work, guys!
I'm Sorry (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:I'm Sorry (Score:5, Insightful)
They would be far closer to replacing exchange if they supported Exchange. The Evolution Exchange plugin has been open sourced for ages now, porting it the cross platform Thunderbird and Sunbird would make the suite hugely more attractive to enterprises locked into MS Office for their client software.
What would be cool ... (Score:5, Funny)
It could save on the download because each part would share the UI code, networking code, etc, given that they're all built upon a custom platform layer, and each download replicates that.
Ah well, I'm sure it will never happen.
Re:What would be cool ... (Score:4, Funny)
(http://thepeckfamily.us/ | Last Journal: Thursday November 08, @11:19AM)
Re:What would be cool ... (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ [mozilla.org]
I know you know this exists, but it's polite to include a URL when you're sassing someone who doesn't.
Can sync (sort of) with exchange (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.revis.co.uk/)
I still prefer KOrganiser, not least because it has an exchange plug in [kde.org]. 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.
Re:Can sync (sort of) with exchange (Score:4, Funny)
(http://thepeckfamily.us/ | Last Journal: Thursday November 08, @11:19AM)
Re:Can sync (sort of) with exchange (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, but in order to be that dedicated you would first have to be committed... To a to a highly secure facility for the chronically insane
Half way there? (Score:1, Funny)
Screenshots (Score:2, Informative)
Exchange Required (Score:5, Insightful)
Please Fix It (Score:4, Funny)
(http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday August 07, @06:50PM)
Re:Exchange Required (Score:5, Insightful)
Then you better bring to the table the features that Exchange has that folks want. There is no good central calendar sharing server software in the OSS world that can do what Exchange can and integrates everything together with email. It simply doesn't exist, so folks won't migrate for that reason.
A good first step in moving would be to integrate your client so that it can use exchange until an OSS exchange server replacement is made. That's what the grandparent wanted, and it's a very reasonable request.
The vast masses aren't going to migrate away from MS based on principle. They want things that work. You aren't going to break the hegemony until you provide them with something that works as well. Sunbird isn't there yet. Not by a long shot.
Problems? (Score:1)
Wedged (Score:2)
Darwin Calendar Server Support? (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.iphone.org/ | Last Journal: Friday September 07, @01:31PM)
Looks awesome! (Score:2)
(http://youtube.com/thedarkener)
Now the events in Sunbird 0.5 are shadowed, looks much nicer. Thanks guys!!
Oh, and if anyone wants to make an opensourced Sunbird Palm sync plugin, I'd be willing to pay for the development. That's one of the only things I'm waiting for with Sunbird - other than that, it's done everything I wanted it to.
Congratulations to the team (Score:2, Insightful)
* my own iBook, running iCal
* iPod sync'ed off of iCal
* Novell Groupwise at work, on both company Dell laptop and desktop
* Windows Mobile 2003 PIM thing as my work mobile phone
And what runs on everything? The open source stuff, running on many platforms and generating files to import for everything. No agenda as to 'doesn't import / export files for other platforms'. Cracking interface too, simplicity itself. Perfection is when there's nothing extraneous left to remove.
Keep up the good work!
Too late, Google Calendar wins. (Score:2)
(http://thesoftworld.com/cory/)
But I'm not gonna use it now, because I've found Google Calendar. SMS support alone is worth the switch. It also has contacts integration so I can invite people to meetings from my contact list, and it has an upsell story: You can run Google Apps for Domains and get the PIM/Groupware features people rely on from Exchange, but managed and cheaper.
Google Sync is the most important... (Score:3, Interesting)
Off topic: anyone hear any rumors about gmail supporting IMAP?
It's nice that the Mozilla suite... (Score:2)
...of apps is making forward progress.
Now all they need to do is to create a decent contact manager. And no, Thunderbird does not count as a contact manager, decent or otherwise.
Calendar Server (Score:2)
(http://uncensored.citadel.org/ | Last Journal: Sunday November 23 2003, @03:10PM)
Come on! Years of development for a calendar soft! (Score:1)
(http://nektra.blogspot.com/)
A: "You're still thinking procedurally! A properly designed light bulb object would inherit a change method from a generic light bulb class!"
like google calendar (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Monday February 03 2003, @08:59PM)
All I'd like to do is (Score:2)
(http://wyoguide.sf.net/)
- synchronize these with my smart phone
- possibly access dates and tasks of my family members (LAN)
- possibly access web calendars (e.g. Google calendar)
Can SeaMonkey/Lightning full fill these rather simple requirements?
O. Wyss
No offline support (Score:2)
Re:Kalendar (Score:2)
Re:BFD (Score:1)
I still believe that, but extend it to include, "nobody can require you to use Word, Exchange, or Notes."
Re:BFD (Score:2)
(http://felter.org/wesley/)