The 0.5 RC1 release builds were released about two days ago and the immediate feedback is looking pretty good at the moment. If it stays that way, we’ll release the final 0.5 bits pretty soon.
Some of you have asked for RC1 builds of WCAP-enabled Lightning. We heard you, prepared some builds during yesterday and here they are:
As the original Lightning 0.5 RC1 builds, those builds carry all the currently supported languages with them. So installing them into a localized Thunderbird should also give a localized Lightning environment.
That is an excellent news ! Thanks a lot for the WCAP build, you guys are coding machines : )
A real THANKS for all the great work. I’m thrilled!
The new GUI is big step forward.
Unlike the previous 0.5 release, this one refuses to install in the Fedora 7 Thunderbird build.
Also this wont install into Ubuntu Feisty either.
Error :
It wont install because its not compatible with your Thunderbird build type (Linux_x86-gcc3)
Same refusal to install on Mac OS X. Darwin_x86-gcc3.
and the root install.rdf names itself v0.3
em:id lightning-wcap@calendar.mozilla.org /em:id
em:version 0.3 /em:version
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after upgrading to ligthning 0.5RC1 i have a big red message in my thunderbird’s status bar :
var invitationsLabel = “&ligthning.sidebar.invitations.label;”;
beyond this minor issue, big congratulations to the ligthning team
I am having problems with the dropdown date pickers in lightning. They drop down the calendar when clicked but then the calendar disappears. If you then mouseover where the calendar was displayed you can see the cursor change and clicking activates the invisible calendar.
Time pickers are fine. I searched bugzilla but can’t find a bug related to this although I swear I have seen it before. This is on Intel Mac 10.4.9.
Still trying to figure out how to delete the lightning profile without deleting my thunderbird profile so that I can eliminate any possible bugs there. Any thoughts/ideas are appreciated.
@jon
Looks like Bug 367159.
0.5 changes (over 0.3.1) available here:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2006/12/sb_0-5.html
Does it warrant an addition to the release notes?
@ssitter
Actually looks like Bug 346318 which was marked as fixed but is actually farther reaching than just that dialog box they mentioned, and is still present.
Actually, I remember looking at a previous build where it was fixed and so I wonder if the fix was reverted or something.
@gregr
I filed Bug 383124 for the version number issue.
@Laurent
I filed Bug 383163 for the missing string issue.
@jon
The datepicker issue (Bug 346318) was fixed in the Mozilla Toolkit using a workaround for Sunbird. This workaround isn’t affective in Thunderbird therefore the issue still exists when using Lightning.
@ssitter
Thanks, I didn’t realize that. I wonder what the odds are of having it fixed in 0.5. It’s still pretty unusable the way it is on the mac.
Also, do you have any idea if they intend to remove the calendar control now that there is a date picker on the main Thunderbird window above the Agenda listing? It seems redundant to have both and the calendar control takes up so much room.
@ssitter : filed a new bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383263
I think
em:targetPlatform WINNT_x86-msvc /em:targetPlatform
in install.rdf for linux and Mac version prevent from installing
Can’t install lightning with wcap 0.5 on MacBook Pro running Thunderbird 2.0b2. Message says “Lightning with WCAP” could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Thunderbird build type (Darwin_x86-gcc3). Please contact the author item about your problem. :-(. I need this update to fix a daylight savings time problem. It fixed it on Windows. Now I need it for the Mac.
mdern, this is Bug 383263 and it will be fixed, when our RC2 comes out.
hey dunno what to do !
using thunder bird on windows/
upgraded to lightning 0.5 and cant use thunderbird any more- says there is a bug
hey dunno what to do !
using thunder bird on windows/
upgraded to lightning 0.5 and cant use thunderbird any more- says there is a bug
I installed Lightning with WCAP 0.5 on my winwdows XP.
I seems to work well and my SUN calendar apears.
But when i discontect my computer : all disapears !
Can’t i work offline ?