Sunbird and Lightning 0.3RC2 available
Matthew Willis
now available.
Key things to know about these bits:
* Sunbird: Localized versions and langpacks are now available with this RC.
* Lightning: All locales have been bundled into the extension.
* The release notes are still a work in progress; however it is believed
that they contain most of the important information. Please read them
carefully before installing.
Lightning Release Notes:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning0.3.html
Sunbird Release Notes:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/sunbird0.3.html
We'd love all the help we can get ensuring that we know about all the
important bugs. Please download and file bugs in Bugzilla (or, if in
doubt, ask in #calendar-qa on IRC).
Lightning 0.3rc2:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/releases/0.3rc2/
Sunbird 0.3rc2:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/sunbird/releases/0.3rc2/
Miles
Installed Lightning 0.3rc2 and have one difficulty. Also have SeaMonkey
and it contains several .ics files under SM/profile/calendar, but none
are found in TB/profile/xx/chrome where the calendar.jars are located,
yet the calendar operates fine in TB.
Wonder if I should merely copy the .ics over to TB; and if so, then what
needs to be changed to have it look for the correct path?
Miles
Simon Paquet
>Installed Lightning 0.3rc2 and have one difficulty. Also have SeaMonkey
>and it contains several .ics files under SM/profile/calendar, but none
>are found in TB/profile/xx/chrome where the calendar.jars are located,
>yet the calendar operates fine in TB.
>
>Wonder if I should merely copy the .ics over to TB; and if so, then what
>needs to be changed to have it look for the correct path?
Sunbird or Lightning do not currently search the hard disk for .ics
files. You'll have to import them manually.
Simon
--
Sunbird/Lightning/Calendar Website Maintainer:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar
Sunbird/Calendar blog: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar
Matthew Willis
> Installed Lightning 0.3rc2 and have one difficulty. Also have SeaMonkey
> and it contains several .ics files under SM/profile/calendar, but none
> are found in TB/profile/xx/chrome where the calendar.jars are located,
> yet the calendar operates fine in TB.
>
> Wonder if I should merely copy the .ics over to TB; and if so, then what
> needs to be changed to have it look for the correct path?
> Miles
All versions of Lightning and all releases in the Sunbird 0.3 series use
a SQLite database to store your local calendar data. Previous calendar
extensions and Sunbird 0.2 stored your local calendar data in local .ICS
files in a "calendar" subdirectory in your profile directory.
To ensure that your data is preserved properly, *import* your .ICS files
into Sunbird/Lightning 0.3.
-lilmatt
Stubby
Sunbird 0.3 will not work on Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows ME."
What changes caused this? Who thought this was a good idea?
Most of us don't want to upgrade our OS until Vista comes out.
At least Microsoft doesn't do this sort of thing!
Chris Ilias
> Wow.: "Because of architectural changes in the Mozilla core code,
> Sunbird 0.3 will not work on Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows ME."
>
> What changes caused this? Who thought this was a good idea?
> Most of us don't want to upgrade our OS until Vista comes out.
I guess Sunbird 0.3 RC2 uses Gecko 1.9, which uses Cairo.
See: <http://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko_1.9_Roadmap#cairo_Graphics_Substrate>
Future releases of Mozilla-based products are going to use Gecko 1.9.
(Firefox3, Thunderbird3, SeaMonkey1.5)
> At least Microsoft doesn't do this sort of thing!
Sure they do. :-) Look at the system requirement for IE7.
--
Chris Ilias
mozilla.test.multimedia moderator
Mozilla links <http://ilias.ca>
(Please do not email me tech support questions)
Simon Paquet
>> Wow.: "Because of architectural changes in the Mozilla core code,
>> Sunbird 0.3 will not work on Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows ME."
>>
>> What changes caused this? Who thought this was a good idea?
>> Most of us don't want to upgrade our OS until Vista comes out.
>
>I guess Sunbird 0.3 RC2 uses Gecko 1.9, which uses Cairo.
Exactly.
Andy Willis
> And on the seventh day Chris Ilias spoke:
>
>>> Wow.: "Because of architectural changes in the Mozilla core code,
>>> Sunbird 0.3 will not work on Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows ME."
>>>
>>> What changes caused this? Who thought this was a good idea?
>>> Most of us don't want to upgrade our OS until Vista comes out.
>> I guess Sunbird 0.3 RC2 uses Gecko 1.9, which uses Cairo.
>
> Exactly.
>
> Simon
--disable-Cairo so that it will work on older systems? It doesn't
really matter to me but just a thought.
Andy
Matthew Willis
> Is Sunbird actually using Cairo?
don't think Cairo is the only thing that prevents Gecko 1.9 from running
on Win95/98/ME.
The full story regarding Gecko 1.9 dropping Win95/98/ME support is in
bug 330276.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330276
FWIW, Lightning on Tb 1.5 or Tb 2 probably still work with Win95/98/ME,
since that's based on Gecko 1.8.0 and 1.8.1 respectively.
-lilmatt
Andy Willis
upgrade her machine from win98 to OS/2 :)
Pedro Lamarão
> The second release candidate builds for Sunbird and Lightning 0.3 are
> now available.
In the front page of mozilla.org Sunbird still features as "Mozilla
Subird 0.3 alpha2". Shouldn't that be updated?
--
Pedro Lamarão
Matthew Willis
> In the front page of mozilla.org Sunbird still features as "Mozilla
> Subird 0.3 alpha2". Shouldn't that be updated?
We're waiting for 0.3 final before we ask for it to be updated.
-lilmatt