Test driving Mozilla Sunbird
I'm testing out Mozilla Sunbird. So far, I think it's a little lacking. Granted, it's version 0.2, but here's what I would change. Any Mozilla developers listening?
- default for events is set to private: this should be customizable, where you set your own default to public
- don't try to guess time: if you add a new event, it sets the time range for the event to the current time
- color code events: I should be able to see all my work related events (meetings, deadlines) to show up on the calendar as say, purple, and all personal things as yellow
- password protect: I should have to authenticate before I look at my calendar file
- images: I can't add images to my events. Currently, full day events (birthdays, anniversaries) show up as a blue star. What if I wanted a birthday to show up as a cupcake?
- color schemes: default blue, light blue, lighter blue and black and white. Boring.
- category summary: how many parties do I have in my calendar? How many softball games?
A lot of these features are things that I think are going to be implemented before version 1.0, but I'm looking for a calendaring app soon. One that can go online, and offline, and cross platform. Basically, I'd like an offline version of
ExtCalendar2.
iCalendar standard compliance is mandatory. Sunbird is iCalendar compliant. I'm talking about RFC 2445, not Apple's iCal.
Posted by yakuza at June 15, 2005 12:42 AM
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