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Rob Steinmetz

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Nov 5, 2009, 5:35:55 PM11/5/09
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I'm getting used to the combination of SeaMonkey and Lightning. The one
issue I still have is opening a calendar tab. The only way I can find to
do it is through the Events and Task menu.

I am advised that Thunderbird 3 reopens mail and calendar tabs
automatically when started.

Is there a setting for SeaMonkey to do this. I can't find it so far.

This would help greatly, but I'd still prefer a button to do it.

How hard is it to create a custom toolbar button?

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Rob

NoOp

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Nov 5, 2009, 7:11:15 PM11/5/09
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On 11/05/2009 02:35 PM, Rob Steinmetz wrote:
> I'm getting used to the combination of SeaMonkey and Lightning. The one
> issue I still have is opening a calendar tab. The only way I can find to
> do it is through the Events and Task menu.

The buttons are there, the the right of the mail/news tab. Are they not
showing up on your system?

Primary issue that I have is when I have a calendar open and use the
'Close current tab' button to close the calendar my SeaMonkey (linux
2.0) goes 'poof' & immediately shuts down as if I'd chosen File|Quit or
Ctrl-Q. Doen't happen all the time, but just did when I was responding
to your post a few moments ago. Anyone else experiencing simlar?

>
> I am advised that Thunderbird 3 reopens mail and calendar tabs
> automatically when started.
>
> Is there a setting for SeaMonkey to do this. I can't find it so far.

I've not heard of that.

>
> This would help greatly, but I'd still prefer a button to do it.

Buttons are there; I even installed the lightning xpi (remotely on a
relatives WinXP system & then show up.

>
> How hard is it to create a custom toolbar button?
>

Can you post a screenshot somewhere of a mail/news window where they are
not showing up on your system?

Dr. Wolfgang Roeckelein

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Nov 6, 2009, 3:29:33 AM11/6/09
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NoOp wrote:
> On 11/05/2009 02:35 PM, Rob Steinmetz wrote:
>> I'm getting used to the combination of SeaMonkey and Lightning. The one
>> issue I still have is opening a calendar tab. The only way I can find to
>> do it is through the Events and Task menu.
>
> The buttons are there, the the right of the mail/news tab. Are they not
> showing up on your system?

For me the buttons are only there when there is a calendar tab open.

Wolfgang

Robert Kaiser

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Nov 6, 2009, 7:12:34 AM11/6/09
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Rob Steinmetz wrote:
> I am advised that Thunderbird 3 reopens mail and calendar tabs
> automatically when started.
>
> Is there a setting for SeaMonkey to do this. I can't find it so far.

This is planned for the future, but we didn't get it done for SeaMonkey
2.0 - help would be wanted, we're an all-volunteer project after all
(and if you post this in the development instead of the support group, I
assume you have some development skills *g*)!

Robert Kaiser

Rob Steinmetz

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Nov 6, 2009, 11:17:43 AM11/6/09
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That's correct. In Seamonkey you have to first open a Tab for them to
show up.

Rob Steinmetz

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Nov 6, 2009, 11:40:20 AM11/6/09
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The event and task buttons are in the "Shortcut Area" but they only show
up when a tab is already open. SeaMonkey opens with no mail tabs open
and I can't find a way to get it to open with a tab open.

Opening a Calendar Tab is the issue. Its a small annoying one and I want
to make sure I can explain it before we roll out Seamonkey 2 to our users.

As Far As I Can tell the only way to open a tab is to either right click
on a message and open it in a new tab then you have the buttons you are
talking about or go through the "Events and Tasks" menu to open the
Calendar.

NoOp wrote:
> On 11/05/2009 02:35 PM, Rob Steinmetz wrote:
>> I'm getting used to the combination of SeaMonkey and Lightning. The one
>> issue I still have is opening a calendar tab. The only way I can find to
>> do it is through the Events and Task menu.
>
> The buttons are there, the the right of the mail/news tab. Are they not
> showing up on your system?
>
> Primary issue that I have is when I have a calendar open and use the
> 'Close current tab' button to close the calendar my SeaMonkey (linux
> 2.0) goes 'poof'& immediately shuts down as if I'd chosen File|Quit or
> Ctrl-Q. Doen't happen all the time, but just did when I was responding
> to your post a few moments ago. Anyone else experiencing simlar?
>
>>
>> I am advised that Thunderbird 3 reopens mail and calendar tabs
>> automatically when started.
>>
>> Is there a setting for SeaMonkey to do this. I can't find it so far.
>
> I've not heard of that.
>
>>
>> This would help greatly, but I'd still prefer a button to do it.
>
> Buttons are there; I even installed the lightning xpi (remotely on a

> relatives WinXP system& then show up.

Rob Steinmetz

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Nov 6, 2009, 11:49:01 AM11/6/09
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Glad to hear that it's on your list.

I'd love to help but I don't really have experience in development.
I'm more of a sys admin I actually posted to this group by
accident.Sorry about that.

I do lurk here sometimes so I can find out what you guys are up to.

BTW I really do like Seamonkey 2, My Lightning comments are about a
feature that didn't exist before that we really want to use..

NoOp

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Nov 6, 2009, 8:45:16 PM11/6/09
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On 11/06/2009 08:40 AM, Rob Steinmetz wrote:
> The event and task buttons are in the "Shortcut Area" but they only show
> up when a tab is already open. SeaMonkey opens with no mail tabs open
> and I can't find a way to get it to open with a tab open.
>
> Opening a Calendar Tab is the issue. Its a small annoying one and I want
> to make sure I can explain it before we roll out Seamonkey 2 to our users.
>
> As Far As I Can tell the only way to open a tab is to either right click
> on a message and open it in a new tab then you have the buttons you are
> talking about or go through the "Events and Tasks" menu to open the
> Calendar.
>
...
Edit|Preferences|Browser|Tabbed Browsing|Tab Display| ensure 'Hide the
tab bar when only one tab is open' is not checked.


rob

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Nov 7, 2009, 1:04:00 PM11/7/09
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I'll try that Monday.

I assumed that the Tabbed Browsing options only affected the Browser
component, not the Mail News components.

As usual assuming seems to have been the wrong thing, although perhaps
there should be separate options for the two windows.


NoOp wrote:
> On 11/06/2009 08:40 AM, Rob Steinmetz wrote:
>> The event and task buttons are in the "Shortcut Area" but they only show

>that Monday. up when a tab is already open. SeaMonkey opens with no mail tabs open

moznews...hb@calen.de

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Nov 8, 2009, 5:50:36 PM11/8/09
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Rob Steinmetz schrieb:
> ... The only way I can find to do it is through the Events and Task menu.
> ..., but I'd still prefer a button to do it.

As serious Internet Application Suite Seamonkey should offer several ways to
access Lightning

Keyboard: Accel+7 (Ctrl+7),
Main menu: Entry under "Window" and
Component Toolbar: Own Icon.

Additionally I dislike the calendar only being a Tab in Mailnews. It should have
an own application window to be reached with Alt+Tab on Windows.


Hb

Rob Steinmetz

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Nov 9, 2009, 1:47:16 PM11/9/09
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That works. I still think the Lightning Integration could use some tweaking.
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