deep thoughts @ 10 Jun 2009 10:53 pm by bigfish
File this in the “who knew” section.
I’ve used Thunderbird for years and Google Calendar for at least the last year or so. Who knew you could integrate the two so easily?
I found the Lightning Thunderbird extension in the Ubuntu packages when I did a reinstall, so I installed it. It integrates a nice calendar into Thunderbird.
And, thank you open source community (and Phillipp Kewisch in particular), there’s a plug in that offers bidirectional integration between Google Calendar and Lightning! (Or at least I think it’s bidirectional.) It doesn’t have the most exciting name (Provider for Google Calendar), but it works. At least in one direction.
Anyway, I’ll settle for one direction.
Why do I find this so exciting? Because I’m a dork?
Update: Bidirectionality works!
Be careful with accepting other peoples meeting invites. Unless it’s fixed since the last time I dared to use it, it adds the meeting to the google calendar and then re-invites everyone again. A bit embarassing