On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Calum Benson wrote: > > Lightning is just a plugin version of Sunbird, so presumably one could use > that instead: > <http://download.mozilla.org/?product=sunbird-0.8&os=solaris-i386&lang=en-US> > > I don't know off-hand if Sunbird includes the WCAP stuff for talking to Sun > calendar servers that Lightning does, though, if that matters.
I did seriously try out Sunbird a while ago and while it seems most promising, it had several severe usability issues for me. The most severe is that it does not support AM/PM time as normally used in the USA. Perhaps I am an idiot but converting between AM/PM time and 24-hour time does not come naturally to me. Another shortcoming I found is that I did not find a way to clone an existing entry to create a new one. For example, there may have been a meeting on Tuesday and now it is decided that there will be a similar meeting on Friday. It is useful to be able to clone the existing meeting entry (which contains useful information) to the new entry on Friday. When positioning the entry visually on the calendar, it was often off by 15 minutes (critial error) but it was not possible to tell that without opening the entry. There is a timezone oddity in Sunbird that if you don't get it configured quite correctly (configuration is confusing!), all of the meeting notifications will be off since the data seems to be stored as an offset from UTC. Sunbird does not offer a way to send email. It could do this by offering to execute an external program (but it does not). Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
