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    <title><![CDATA[Thunderbird's calendar and adress book integration.]]></title>
    <link>http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/1814/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[I used thunderbird when I was a windows user (slave?) and I enjoyed it, when I switched to ubuntu I tried to use it as my default mail client. With passing months, I needed to manage my calendar, so I tried sunbird's but the lack of integration with gnome's clock was a big problem (because the todo list and the agenda that easy to get is a real advantage) so I switched to evolution. But it doesn't work well with a mailbox containing a lot of e-mails, especially via google's IMAP but thunderbird performs well. <br />So my question is why not creating a thunderbird add-on such as the one made for firefox to communicate with evolution-data-server, allow gnome's apps to see it's adress book, TODOs and calendars? <br />
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<b>[236 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #1814</b>
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<b>[8 votes] Solution #2: Use "Evolution-Mirror" add-on</b>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Het Irv</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Thunderbird doesn't seem to have the same level of support that Firefox has in Ubuntu, I would like to see this change.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from tram</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I agree.  This is something that really needs attention and I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.  Personally, I don't like Evolution for many reasons.  I find it flaky and the interface stinks.  Thunderbird/Sunbird as the default would be MUCH appreciated or at least give the option to choose it.  Afterall, Linux is about choice. :D]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from sawjew2</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Check out Spicebird which integrates Thunderbird, Lightning (embedded calendar) RSS reader, instant messenger and more.  It's currently only at version 0.4 but they have alot of plans including integration with the Gnome clock applet and MS Exchange support.  http://www.spicebird.com/ ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from gharbeia</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shouldn't this be directed at the developers of Thunderbird?]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Ssdg</title>
  <description><![CDATA[gharbeia> According to me, it's not Thunderbird's dev's job to do it, nor a job for evolution's devs. According to me it's a matter of integration of 2 components: thunderbird and evolution-data-server. so according to me, it's ubuntu's or another distro's job to do it. (It might be my job if I had time, evolution-data-server specs and sunbird's specs, and skills in XUL devellopement)]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from mihai007</title>
  <description><![CDATA[The whole idea of how better operating system X is better than operating system Y for the end user is how well it integrates all the technologies it uses...<br /><br />I also think it's Ubuntu's job to do this.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from cheesehead</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Thunderbird add-on integration with evolution-data-server:<br />https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408158<br /><br />Currently unassigned, no action.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Abra_Kadabra</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Not many people do use Thunderbird.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from mickgardner</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Many people use thunderbird and find the fact that it is not integrated a frustration.  I'd like to see task, calendar, and contacts integration. <br /><br />I'm not asking for it to be the default application (god forbid we get rid of the horrid buggy evolution app), but i'd at least like to know that when I download and install thunderbird, it integrates and plays nicely with the rest of my desktop. <br /><br />I'd be more than happy to help out in any way I can to see something like this happen.  <br /><br />Lets start a project now!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from markdarb</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Yes, please improve Thunderbird integration! I just switched from Evolution to Thunderbird, and found Thunderbird to be far less buggy. Whereas Evolution really mucked up when it came to offline synchronisation with IMAP, Thunderbird performs very well. Where with Evolution it was a struggle to get one-way synchronisation with Google Calendars (and that synchronisation was for from perfect when events were changed or deleted) Thunderbird communicates with Google Calendars both ways perfectly by means of an extension. So far I have very few gripes with Thunderbird, but it is extremely annoying when it can't be integrated with GNOME. I hope we see this feature soon. Thanks :)]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from rjakobsson</title>
  <description><![CDATA[This would be awesome!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from lemsto</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Please go to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408158<br /><br />Register and vote for that bug. We're currently only 3 voters-> few chances for that feature to come]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from 1337hippo</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I second lemsto, please vote up that feature!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from borsook</title>
  <description><![CDATA[What's the problem with using Thunderbird plus Lightning? Is this not what you want? It serves as a default email client/calendar in Linux Mint and seems to fulfil the role just fine.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Ssdg</title>
  <description><![CDATA[borsook> there is no problem in using thunderbird, but you can see the events and your calendar aren't shown in the panel that appears when you click on the clock in gnome.<br /><br />(I switched to evolution a few months after submitting that idea, and I'm stuck now because thunerbird adress book isn't as precise as evolution's, but I miss underbirds reliablility on virtual folders and mail checking in general.)]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 11:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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