FS#17510 - [thunderbird] build with enabled calendar is a bad idea

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jürgen Hagemann (cappucco) - Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 06:19 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 21:24 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Ionut Biru (wonder)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Description:
The new build of thunderbird enabled calendar. This is a bad idea and not recommended. This builtin lightning is not localized and conflicts with the lightning extension, if people installed it before the tb - update.
Please let the people decide, to use lightning or not and dont install it with thunderbird.


Additional info:
* thunderbird 3.0-2



Steps to reproduce:
update thunderbird
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 21:24 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  see comments
Comment by Thomas Jost (Schnouki) - Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 08:36 GMT
Having a package for Lightning would be a great idea though. Why not split the Thubderbird package into thunderbird and thunderbird-lightning (which would only contain the extension) ?

This would be great for x86_64 users since the latest build on ftp.mozilla.org are i686-only. (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/)
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 09:10 GMT
tools->addons-> click on the extesion->disable

you have a way to disable it rather than don't have an lighting extension at all.
Comment by Jürgen Hagemann (cappucco) - Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 09:30 GMT

> tools->addons-> click on the extesion->disable

> you have a way to disable it rather than don't have an lighting extension at all.

Yes, but this is just a workaround. Why not to let the user decide, what they want and what they don´t.
BTW, the built in lightning is experimental, it is not localized and it is not on the status of the actual nightlys.
What about users, who want an actual or a localized nightly. They can´t update, because they need root privileges to do that with the built in version. Maybe it is possible to install a second instance of lightning (I don´t know), but it is just a dirty hack and not a clean solution... I don´t see any benefit with this built in version.

As Thomas Jost commented, it would be a good idea, to offer lightning as an extra package, but dont force users to install things, that they don´t want.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 09:34 GMT
nobody commented on  FS#17457  or  FS#17504  saying that is a bad idea. the first was up 5 days. i'll try to do the split.
Comment by Jürgen Hagemann (cappucco) - Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 09:39 GMT
> i'll try to do the split

THX :-) , this may be the best solution and satisfies all userwishes...
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 14:07 GMT
i decided to drop support for it. users are having problems with it, like you described and rendering issue when using with other extension.
it will be shipped only when mozilla decide that.

feel free to make a build and upload into aur as thunderbird-whatever having calendar enabled.

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