Thunderbird Love

[James Tait]

On 19/05/11 21:36, Mike Basinger wrote:
> I know one concern that this group could help with is desktop
> integration. There are a couple projects that will help integrate
> Thunderbird in Unity which we could show some love which would help the
> Mozilla team and the developers of the add-ons.
>
> https://launchpad.net/messagingmenu-extension
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/unity-launcher-integration/

The other aspect of desktop integration is getting Thunderbird to play 
nice with Evolution-Data-Server for things like calendar items from 
Lightning in the Date/Time indicator applet, and global address book so 
that for example, the contacts picker in the Send To context menu in 
Nautilus actually has contacts in it that are available in Thunderbird.

Evolution Mirror is a step towards the calendar side:

   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/evolution-mirror/

It's currently experimental and one-way only and relies heavily on 
Python, but it does work.  I don't know if there are other solutions 
available.

I've been working on Hedera (shameless plug) to allow Thunderbird to 
work with Desktopcouch (and, by extension, Ubuntu One) for contacts:

   https://launchpad.net/hedera

Clearly this isn't E-D-S, but I spoke in some depth with Mike Conley of 
Mozilla at UDS and he's working hard to make it much easier to add 
custom address book back-ends - Hedera will benefit greatly from this 
and should provide a kick start for E-D-S integration too, but I could 
use some help.

JT