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Bug 660720 - Thunderbird/Lightning Calendar not integrated in gnome 3
Thunderbird/Lightning Calendar not integrated in gnome 3
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: calendar
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail)
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-10-02 21:38 UTC by ppr
Modified: 2014-11-07 14:16 UTC
See Also:
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Description ppr 2011-10-02 21:38:01 UTC
1. The Lightning plugin of Thunderbird offer a Calendar but this Calendar is not recognized as a Calendar Application.
2. The top bar in gnome-shell cannot show events of my Thunderbird/Lightning Calendar
Comment 1 André Klapper 2011-10-03 11:39:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> 1. The Lightning plugin of Thunderbird offer a Calendar but this Calendar is
> not recognized as a Calendar Application.

What are the steps to reproduce this and how did you exactly try to set this up?
Comment 2 ppr 2011-10-03 13:28:27 UTC
Steps to reproduce 1. :

A. Install thunderbird with the plugin lightning.
B. Go to "System Settings" then "System info" then "Default applications"
C. There is only evolution as calendar available. So Thunderbird/Lightning is not reconize like a calendar application. 

It's not very important but perhaps there is a relation between this (bug 1.) and the impossibility to show events of ligthning in the top bar (bug 2.)
Comment 3 Florian Müllner 2011-10-03 13:53:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> 1. The Lightning plugin of Thunderbird offer a Calendar but this Calendar is
> not recognized as a Calendar Application.

Not a gnome-shell issue, but anyway: gnome-control-center uses the list of supported mime types in the .desktop file to determine available default applications (text/calendar in the calendar case).

Obviously a thunderbird extension can neither modify the existing .desktop file nor install its own, which is unfortunate, but not fixable on the gnome side.

(As a workaround, you can add text/calendar to the MimeType key in thunderbird's .desktop file (to not mess with the package manager, you can copy the file from /usr/share/applications to ~/.local/share/applications before modifying it)


> 2. The top bar in gnome-shell cannot show events of my Thunderbird/Lightning
> Calendar

Yes, for now this is only implemented for eds. There might be a gnome-shell extension which adds lightning support, and if I remember correctly Canonical is working on a thunderbird extension to sync lightning events with eds.
Comment 4 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2011-10-03 15:13:10 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Obviously a thunderbird extension can neither modify the existing .desktop file
> nor install its own, which is unfortunate, but not fixable on the gnome side.
That's not true if that extension is installed via a distro package, which is possible at least on Fedora. So if you installed Lightning from a package, fiel a bug against your distribution.
Comment 5 ppr 2011-10-06 21:40:41 UTC
To sum up : 1. cannot be fixed by gnome because it depends of lightning/Thunderbird. 

So there is still bug 2. in progress. if Canonical fix this, we have to integrate this to gnome 3.2. But we can also fix this by ourselves...

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1. The Lightning plugin of Thunderbird offer a Calendar but this Calendar is
not recognized as a Calendar Application.
2. The top bar in gnome-shell cannot show events of my Thunderbird/Lightning
Calendar
Comment 6 André Klapper 2014-10-28 20:56:41 UTC
So this is something that packagers should fix in distributions?

RESOLVED NOTGNOME?
Comment 7 Bastien Nocera 2014-11-07 14:16:05 UTC
Bug 672500 adds a way for the calendar source to be replaced by an extension, which makes it easier to write an extension to support Thunderbird/Lightning.

The lack of mime-types listed in the calendar application's desktop file is something for them to fix, which I'd recommend filing with your distribution or upstream.

Closing as WONTFIX as gnome-shell won't be adding support for Thunderbird itself.