With Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 and Lightning 0.8 click on the calendar view, by default you'll get a "Day View", if you try to change to any other date view (Multidday, Week, Month) nothing happens. This is true irregardeless of whether you use the view buttons on the toolbar or the view menu items.
BTW, Lightning 0.8 with Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 in F-8 does not exhibit this behavior. Since both Lightning addons are 0.8 the only difference is the Thunderbird version and OS version.
John: Have you tried with xpi installer from Lightning upstream?
Yes I used the xpi installer downloading lighting from the mozilla web site. I did not install from a Fedora repo.
Bouncing back to Thunderbird package then.
Cannot reproduce with thunderbird and lightining from Fedora repos. I don't think we support upstream lighting plugin when we have native build available. thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc9.i386 thunderbird-lightning-0.8-3.fc9.i386 Reporter, do you have any idea, how to reproduce this bug just using Fedora packages?
Well silly me, I used the tools provided by Thunderbird to find and install the Lightning extension :-) Had I instead used 'yum install thunderbird-lightning' I would have gotten something which did work, how silly to not know the extensions must be built by us and that one should never ever use the ones pointed to by the application. Maybe the bug report should be changed to "Thunderbird suggests installing extensions we know won't work" In other words never follow the link in the "Add-On Dialog box" which says "Get Extensions". Or maybe that link should point to a yum repo instead.
John, the point is that Lighting is fairly huge extension (which is the reason why it is packaged at Fedora in the first place) with a lot of compiled C-code. Unfortunately, upstream compiles with some really old and obsolete tools and libraries, so although on F9 upstream extension should work (especially with installing appropriate name packages), I wouldn't expect (especially from big ones) that much miralces.