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Thunderbird (2.0) and Lightning
Jun. 6th, 2008 06:52 pmI almost forgot: I found a fix for something which was bugging me.
If you have installed Ubuntu Hardy, then you'll notice that you have Thunderbird 2.0 installed. Also available is this package called "lightning-extension". Lightning is a plug-in to Thunderbird. Well, when I say 'plugin', it is a enhancement par excellence. It give Thunderbird a calendar function. Now, when you get a meeting invite, you can respond right there from Thunderbird, rather than firing up Evolution or hoping that the OWA web interface will behave this time.
But. When I fired it up for the first time, I discovered a calender in there called Korganizer, which even had event in it. Yay! It's that smart, it found my Korganizer calender and included it automatically! Double Yay! Wait: why are none of the meetings I accept visible from Korganizer? Why do additions I make through my Palm and sync with Korganizer not visible in Lightning?
Now I know the answer. Lightning has two types of calender: local and remote. When you create a calender, it really wants you to make it local. It turns out that the local calender is not an ICAL file: it's a SQLlite database of your appointments. Which makes sense, I guess, but that's not what I want: I want it to talk to Korganizer, dammit! It doesn't even give the option to link this calender to std.ics! Wah! So much potential ruined!
Wait... 'Remote' calender. It turns out that this does not mean 'any calender on another server', as you might naïvely think: it means any calender which is not a carefully tended SQL database. Like, for instance, an ICAL file. So, setting up a 'remote' calender and setting the URL to '~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer/std.ics', and now there is actual communication. I can accept a meeting and sync it painlessly to my Palm.
It turns out that when Lightning first started it looked for the Korganizer calender, and imported it into it's own database, where it would be protected forever, incommunicado and utterly useless. Well, no longer.
Now all I have to do is get korganizer to talk with Exchange, and Bjorn Stroninthearm's my uncle.
If you have installed Ubuntu Hardy, then you'll notice that you have Thunderbird 2.0 installed. Also available is this package called "lightning-extension". Lightning is a plug-in to Thunderbird. Well, when I say 'plugin', it is a enhancement par excellence. It give Thunderbird a calendar function. Now, when you get a meeting invite, you can respond right there from Thunderbird, rather than firing up Evolution or hoping that the OWA web interface will behave this time.
But. When I fired it up for the first time, I discovered a calender in there called Korganizer, which even had event in it. Yay! It's that smart, it found my Korganizer calender and included it automatically! Double Yay! Wait: why are none of the meetings I accept visible from Korganizer? Why do additions I make through my Palm and sync with Korganizer not visible in Lightning?
Now I know the answer. Lightning has two types of calender: local and remote. When you create a calender, it really wants you to make it local. It turns out that the local calender is not an ICAL file: it's a SQLlite database of your appointments. Which makes sense, I guess, but that's not what I want: I want it to talk to Korganizer, dammit! It doesn't even give the option to link this calender to std.ics! Wah! So much potential ruined!
Wait... 'Remote' calender. It turns out that this does not mean 'any calender on another server', as you might naïvely think: it means any calender which is not a carefully tended SQL database. Like, for instance, an ICAL file. So, setting up a 'remote' calender and setting the URL to '~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer/std.ics', and now there is actual communication. I can accept a meeting and sync it painlessly to my Palm.
It turns out that when Lightning first started it looked for the Korganizer calender, and imported it into it's own database, where it would be protected forever, incommunicado and utterly useless. Well, no longer.
Now all I have to do is get korganizer to talk with Exchange, and Bjorn Stroninthearm's my uncle.
