Bug 868746 - Thunderbird/Lightning Calendar not recognized as a Calendar Application
Summary: Thunderbird/Lightning Calendar not recognized as a Calendar Application
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell
Version: 23
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 689288
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-22 02:56 UTC by Luya Tshimbalanga
Modified: 2016-12-23 19:28 UTC (History)
29 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of: 689288
Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-12-17 05:56:27 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Luya Tshimbalanga 2012-10-22 02:56:59 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #689288 +++

Description of problem:
Cannot view Calendar events created in Mozilla Thunderbird/Lightning on Gnome-shell Calendar UI ... because the default Calendar Client is Evolution.  Gnome3 does not recognize that Thunderbird/Lightning is installed and that it provides this service.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.91.91-2.fc15

How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Thunderbird
2. Install the Lightning Plug-in
3. Go to system settings -> system info -> default applications -> calendar
  
Actual results:
Only Evolution is listed

Expected results:
Evolution and Thunderbird/Lightning should be listed

Additional info:

--- Additional comment from raghusiddarth on 2011-07-24 20:00:31 EDT ---

I guess the following information will be use full as well :

"You must first write a patch against DateMenu
(js/ui/dateMenu.js:55) so that it can pick a custom source instead
of the default DBusEventSource (possibly analizing
org.gnome.default-applications.calendar or some other GSettings key),
then just write a Lighting EventSource (see js/ui/calendar.js), using
whatever DBus API or library Lightning uses (it may involve an extension
for Lightning, if database access is not normally granted to external
processe).
Thanks for your interest in this and file a bug when you're ready!"

--- Additional comment from adamgmetzler on 2011-10-27 08:01:23 EDT ---

This could be a source of ideas for keeping the evolution-calendar-server and fixing this bug but its lacking bi-directional editing of the data once its pushed to the evolution-calendar-server. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/evolution-mirror/ This addon has seemed to solve half of the problem and maybe it could be extended to finish the integration.

--- Additional comment from endoflife on 2012-08-06 16:01:56 EDT ---

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--- Additional comment from endoflife on 2012-08-06 16:02:09 EDT ---

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has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 15. It is 
Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no 
longer maintained.  At this time, all open bugs with a Fedora 'version'
of '15' have been closed as WONTFIX.

(Please note: Our normal process is to give advanced warning of this 
occurring, but we forgot to do that. A thousand apologies.)

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plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, feel free to reopen 
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Comment 1 Luya Tshimbalanga 2012-10-22 03:02:54 UTC
Reopening this bug as Mozilla Thunderbird user because the issue remains unfixed on Gnome 3.6. Gnome-shell should recognize Ligthning/Thunderbird as Calender Application in the same vein of Calendar/Evolution.

Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2013-03-27 07:59:25 UTC
let's set this to Rawhide so it doesn't get closed; it's effectively an RFE. It would probably be better filed at b.g.o, though.

Comment 3 Stephen Hatfield 2013-03-27 11:13:39 UTC
I'm still interested in seeing it get fixed . . . thanks for keeping this alive guys!

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 16:40:28 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

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Comment 5 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 14:57:59 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora23

Comment 6 Luya Tshimbalanga 2015-10-16 20:24:45 UTC
Update from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660720#c7

Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2016-11-24 10:50:12 UTC
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of '23'.

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version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
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Comment 8 Colin Macdonald 2016-12-17 05:56:27 UTC
Owncloud/Nextcloud give a reasonable workaround for me (thunderbird and gnome3) both sync with that).  Strange times: the easiest way to connect two pieces of software on my LOCAL COMPUTER if by linked them both to the same cloud-thing.  But Nextcloud is Free Software so acceptable!

Closing "WONTFIX".

Comment 9 Colin Macdonald 2016-12-17 05:58:11 UTC
Oops, I'm sorry Luya Tshimbalanga!  That was rude: I thought this was originally a bug that I'd filed myself.  Please feel free to reopen (or ask me to).

Comment 10 Luya Tshimbalanga 2016-12-23 19:28:05 UTC
(In reply to Colin Macdonald from comment #9)
> Oops, I'm sorry Luya Tshimbalanga!  That was rude: I thought this was
> originally a bug that I'd filed myself.  Please feel free to reopen (or ask
> me to).

No worries. Upstream closed the bug as WONTFIX anyway and workaround exists.


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