Mozilla Lightning released
For those of you who don’t know, Lightning is a redesign of the long-running (but somewhat growth-stunted) Mozilla Calendar/Sunbird project which aims at achieving greater integration with the Thunderbird user interface to turn the rather nice email app into an Outlook-killing PIM. Well, the first alpha test version of it has been released.
As far as calendaring goes, it is already fairly solid. However there are two problems with it:
- No device (e.g. PocketPC, Palm) sync support. For most PIM users this is fairly basic – after all people who do not have such a device will probably be using an online calendar such as 30 Boxes anyway
- No information on where the files are stored. Everything seems to be stored in the monolithic Thunderbird profile folder, whereas Calendar (in Thunderbird Extension form) stored each calendar in its own .ics file, so you could use FinchSync (specially designed for Mozilla Calendar) to compensate for Mozilla’s slowness to implement it themselves
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