GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 660720
Thunderbird/Lightning Calendar not integrated in gnome 3
Last modified: 2014-11-07 14:16:05 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
(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?
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.)
(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.
(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.
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... ----- 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
So this is something that packagers should fix in distributions? RESOLVED NOTGNOME?
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.