Comments on: Lightning-in-Thunderbird status update

By: JeanT-22

JeanT-22 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:13:06 +0000

Quant à l’intégration de Lightning en standard dans Thunderbird elle semble désormais écartée comme le confirme David Asher sur son blog.(…)

C’est très dommage. Je préfère l’ergonomie, l’apparence et le fonctionnement de Thunderbird à Evolution, mais j’ai besoin d’un agenda ! En plus, je souhaiterai qu’il puisse être syncronisé avec mon Palm, ce que je n’arrive pas à faire avec l’actuel Lightning. Dommage.
Pourtant, je ne reviendrai pas à Outlook.
Bien cordialement

By: Thunderbird 3 : David Ascher donne quelques nouvelles lors du FOSDEM – Philippe Scoffoni

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:23:39 +0000

[...] Quant à l’intégration de Lightning en standard dans Thunderbird elle semble désormais écartée comme le confirme David Asher sur son blog. [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:19:30 +0000

Thunderbird 3.0 shouldn’t have been released without a good warning on the download page advising compatibility problems with the current stable lightening. I’ve been left with advising users to download the nightly builds or revert back to TBird 2.

By: Max M.

Max M. — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:45:59 +0000

What a pity that you didn’t get ready to provide a version of Lightning which is compatible with TB3 in time of the release of TB3. If it doesn’t come soon I might have to set up a standalone version of sunbird. That’s not very good indeed!

By: shiro

shiro — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:06:36 +0000

Again, this is why thunderbird is and always will be a joke. It will never get a mainstream following without having some kind of calendar.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:33:02 +0000

I know this is an old post, but reading the comments I’d just like to say:

I personally think the _much_ better decision would have been to scrap tabs (frivolous at best) and put all the effort in to lightning and other ‘bridge’ improvements. The more Thunderbird can take over the role of Outlook (including protocols and data sources), the higher the uptake would be from business users.

Getting people to swap over from microsoft products is hard enough without telling them they have to lose features..

Just my 2c..

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:27:33 +0000

I like TB3b3 but the lack of Lightning is such a large hole that I am considering abandoning the use of TB entirely. TB is taking a very long time to do what appears to be so little. An email client is not very special in today’s webmail based world. An integrated local email client with calendaring and task management is something different. TB is not that. TB with Lightning is almost that. IMO, This was a wrongheaded marketing decision.

By: Thunderbird? Ja, den gibts noch! | Mein Blog

Thunderbird? Ja, den gibts noch! | Mein Blog — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:20:57 +0000

[...] lange Zeit klar, dass Lightning in Thunderbird 3 integriert werden würde. Im Februar 2009 gab David Ascher aber bekannt, dass dies nicht geschehen wird. Obwohl er einige Gründe anführt, dürfte es [...]

By: Need Local Sync with Pre / Google Calendar? Screw Outlook: Thunderbird w/ Lightning - PreCentral Forums

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:47:25 +0000

[...] Originally Posted by greenawayj anyone using the T-bird 3.0 beta (I think Lightning is fully integrated)? Any issues relative to the stability of 2.x? Lightning isn’t integrated into the 3.0 beta yet. They decided not to for now: Lightning-in-Thunderbird status update @ david ascher [...]

By: Calystor

Calystor — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:16:54 +0000

I have a pocket PC and a smart phone as many people. Without the calendar, I can’t move to Thunderbird and I have to remain with this penny Outlook. It is a bad decision for the future of Thunderbird. Moreover the version 3 of Thunderbird have to wait the outcome of Firefox 3.5: 6 month too much