Another status update as we’re coming ever closer to the first release candidate (RC1) of the upcoming 0.7 release. The most notable fix is probably the fix to bug 393387 which will hopefully take care of all the disappearing events issues, that some users have experienced in the 0.5 release.
The RC1 will also be the first chance for localizers to get their hands on a fully localized build of Lightning, so that the localization quality can be estimated (and maybe improved) for the final 0.7 release. To achieve this we have worked hard behind the scenes with many localizers and as of today 20 localizations other than English are ready for the RC1 (Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Basque, French, Gaelic, Georgian, Italian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Europe), Russian, Slovak, Swedish and (for the first time) Chinese).
Were still missing localized strings from the Hungarian, Mongolian, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi and Slovenian localizers, but hopefully we’ll be able to get localized builds for these languages as well, so that all users of the 0.5 release can update to 0.7 once it comes out.
Here’s the list of fixed bugs since the last status update:
- Bug 351084:
Can’t set alarm for new task, existing or default alarm throws error (add-on patch) - Bug 356569:
wcap subscription auto registration by explicit pref only for now - Bug 357079:
Agenda tab doesn’t update today’s date after hibernating - Bug 359443:
Deleting item from Agenda deletes an email instead - Bug 367159:
[Mac] Date picker disappears after it is clicked on, before user selects a date, POOR MANs FIX - Bug 377403:
Event dialog: iTIP invitations not sent - Bug 374235:
Breakpad should replace Talkback in future versions of Sunbird - Bug 386479:
Switch to Calendar mode don’t work properly using buttons, Calendar menu or keyboard shortcut - Bug 386636:
mail-mode should be visible after clicking the tray-icon of an incoming mail (addon-patch) - Bug 388418:
Can’t create ‘Last day of the month’ recurrence rule - Bug 388985:
Calendar color not applied in views: events are translucent - Bug 393366:
Calendar List check boxes are not XP/Vista platform conform - Bug 393387:
week view is blank - Bug 393412:
calPeriod code improvements - Bug 394149:
Event dialog: Status field (tentative, confirmed, canceled) is missing - Bug 395288:
Event dialog: Wrong reminder entry shown for odd durations - Bug 395658:
Colliding event boxes in rotated view - Bug 395777:
changing default for non-owned calendar to readOnly - Bug 396093:
Menu View -> Task List is broken, Task List is always visible - Bug 396206:
Make it easier to overlay the calendar properties dialog - Bug 396269:
Add zh-CN (Simplified Chinese) to shipped-locales - Bug 396277:
fixing view update after timezone, tasks in view change - Bug 396580:
Fix guessSystemTimezone if no TZNAME is set
Thanks again to all our developers, contributors, localizers, testers, and supporters. Keep up the good work!
We are working with sunbird over 2 years at office. Unfortunally it is going slower and slower… We have to wait for about 2 minutes now to start it. Shure: If we will clear the old enties it will become faster. But this is’nt the sense of a calendar. Is thera any work on getting the calendar faster? Otherwise we will change to another PIM. Sunbird/Calendar is -at this stag – nice for home, but much to slow for office.
schelm, which version do you use in your office and are you working with .ics files or with local storage calendars? Over the last two years we have made some large improvements in terms of performance (although not nearly sufficient), but those applied mostly to storage calendars and we are still pretty bad with large .ics calendar files.
I can’t promise you a breakthrough for 0.7, but we are continously working on performance improvements and we have some more extensive plans for 0.9 and 1.0. I hope you stay with us! Let me know if there’s anything that we can do to help you.
Short update: We know have localized Punjabi builds as well.
Does anyone know how to enable the Task list in the latest nightly of Lightning (In Thunderbird 2.0)? I can’t see any task list, and I have tried creating new tasks too.
Thanks!
Just wondering if the announcement by the Mozilla Foundation about creating a subsidiary company for Thunderbird affects Sunbird at all. Does the compartmentalization of Thunderbird free up developers at all to work on Sunbird or does it give Sunbird more attention with in Mozilla? Or possibly do you see Sunbird following Thunderbird in the near future?
I have noticed some slowdown, as well (with 0.7pre Lightning). I only have one ICS calendar (US Holidays); everything else is the main calendar. It takes me about a second to draw a week view, and about three seconds to draw a month view. I have events going back to May 2006, many recurring. Months before that with no events draw in about a second.
I’ve also noticed recently that if I switch back to Mail, then return to my week view in Calendar, the vertical scroll is set to midnight when my work day is set to 9-5. Earlier builds didn’t have this problem.
While I’m here, another thing I’ve seen for a while is that if I accept an invitation, it appears correctly, but after restarting Thunderbird the new event will appear 4 hours or so in the future from where it was, and I have to change it back. It is as if it were being set properly in RAM but to GMT in the database. (I’m in EST5EDT.)
Other than these quirks, I’m quite happy with Lightning, and look forward to further developments.
Caleb, the recent announcement by the *Mozilla Corporation* (please note the difference) does not affect Lightning in Sunbird in any way.
Neither the Mozilla Corporation nor the Mozilla Foundation employ people to work on the Calendar products and therefore no resources can be freed up here.
Since we’re an independent project in the Mozilla space and have no direct affiliation with either the Corporation or the Foundation (other than that those provide basic infrastructure to our project) I doubt that this will give Lightning or Sunbird more attention or visibility in both organizations.
To be quite frank, in *my personal opinion* this shows that the sole focus of both the Foundation and the Corporation is moving more and more towards Firefox.
What this might entail however is a more closer relationship with the newly formed mail corporation (or whatever it will be called). But we will have to see how it all turns out.
And will the announcement of IBM providing Symphony based on OpenOffice for freee on top of its Notes Calendar and mail solution (not free ;) ) have any impact on TB+Lighting ? If I remember well, TB and Lightning is now also funded by Sun to be included as an Outlook replacement brick in the OpenOffice solution…
Simon, I am facing a similar situation like Schelm. At my employer, a team is using is using Sunbird 0.5. All team member calendars are published as *.ics files to a WebDAV server.
All team members subscribe read-only to the other calendars.
There is some displeasure building up as opening Sunbird (and loading all remote calendars) is rather slow.
People like the Sunbird/Lightning approach, but they are just unhappy with the slowdown.
Team management, however, is quite open to provide testing grounds.
So, if you wish to have performance-related subjects to be tested in such an environment, we would be happy to volunteer.
Simon, I am facing a similar situation like Schelm. At my employer, a team is using is using Sunbird 0.5. All team member calendars are published as *.ics files to a WebDAV server.
All team members subscribe read-only to the other calendars.
There is some displeasure building up as opening Sunbird (and loading all remote calendars) is rather slow.
People like the Sunbird/Lightning approach, but they are just unhappy with the slowdown.
Team management, however, is quite open to provide testing grounds.
So, if you wish to have performance-related subjects to be tested in such an environment, we would be happy to volunteer.
Hey guys!
Thanks for your great work!
Specially the switch between mail and lightning is great. But unfortunately the cal view doesn’t remember its last view anymore when thunderbird is restarted. I always have to klick on that Multiweek-button. :(
Cheers
John
Simon, we are using Version 0.5 final with ics-files on four PCs. We store the ICS files on a NAS in the Intranet. Every User has only one calender with write permission (given by the NAS).
Ist there a possibility to use the storage-db with multiple users at this time?
Hello,
I am facing same problem like Gary Duzan.
Week day parameter is not keep when switching between Mail and Calendar.
I also noticed when I accept an invitation the time is correct but after a restart of TB it is wrong.
I hope both bug will be solved for 0.7 release.
Thanks.
0.7 RC1 “this week” and here we are, midday on Friday and not a peep.
Although I notice some new UI stuff in the nightly build I got this morning, I don’t update daily so I don’t know when changes were added. I also see the version is labelled as “0.7pre” so I guess unofficially this is .7 RC1
Still bummed that the OSX nightlies are not Universal Builds. Other than that, you gays are doing great.
Dear Simon,
congratulations to the final 0.7 release, the people here in Germany are really pleased by the new version!
But they are beginning to ask the same question as Schelm did:
Is it possible to share the same storage.db with multiple clients (and maybe Sunbird and Lightning clients mixed)?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/faq.html#local_calendar
Rene,
it is not possible to share a storage.sdb file with multiple clients.
And when there are only 2 clients on the same machine, not running at the same time?
Like Sunbird and Thunderbird/Lightning.