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Goals for Lightning 0.9 [edit]

The list below states the goals for Lightning 0.9. The goals were discussed and agreed on the F2F Meeting 2008, in Hamburg.

Usability [edit]

Improving the usability is important for this release. Goal is to get the critical pain point which are mostly the view "up and running".

Performance [edit]

The performance is still, especially with "large" calendars too low. In addition the Lightning does not provide good feedback mechanism, showing a progress while Reload.

The performance improvements shall focus on the major pain point only

Interoperability [edit]

Interoperability is important. Especially with Outlook. This release will focus on fixing the biggest pain point.


Details: [edit]

Calendar Views [edit]

  • Display Half Hours
  • CSS improvement (bring Grid to 2008)
  • Replace Decorated Header (Nav Bar) by standard Items
    • Navigation, Date Info, Calendar Week Info
  • Task Mode Borders
  • Improve Look of Mini Month (Done)
  • Make Toolbar background look the same as in Mail Mode
  • Display invitation Link in all Modes
  • Indicators (<- ->) for All Day Events
  • Show indicator if event is out of view

(http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Improving_the_Calendar_Views) (http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Improved_Events_and_Tasks)

Event Boxes [edit]

  • Truncated Font Height
  • Make Zero Length Events selectable
  • Event input XOR problem (Black text on dark colored events)
  • Optimized Context menu (Bug 340025)
  • Display status icons for: Series's, Private
  • Edit, Delete, Move Series's

Today Pane [edit]

  • All Day Events Visualization
  • Allow users to display the Mini Month instead of the Mini Day
  • It should be possible Drag & Drop of Events from the Event List into the Task List and vice versa
  • It should be possible Drag & Drop of Events from the Event List onto Mode Toolbar Buttons for conversion
  • Add Borders to Task Lists, Add margin to Event List
  • Display Today Pane in Calendar Mode (patch available)
    • Default: Tasks, Mini Day OFF
  • Display Today Pane in Task Mode (patch available)
    • Default: Events, Mini Day OFF

Tasks [edit]

Layout changes for Task Dialog,

Dialog Improvements [edit]

  • Cluster Time Zone List
  • Usability optimizations of Freebusy Grid (-> Low Prio)

Calendar Creation Wizard [edit]

  • Optimize UI - remove "local", add overlay for providers, button to pull providers from web. (low prio ??)

Responsiveness/Performance [edit]

  • Progress display on reload See → TB, Toolbar and status bar,
  • Error handling on network errors (simple Solution by denoting the calendar -blinking or graying out) Timer relaxing after hibernation.
  • Error notifications
  • Leaks

Improved iMIP/iTIP [edit]

  • The missing METHODs
  • Outlook Roundtrip

CalDAV-Support [edit]

  • Scheduling

Gdata [edit]

  • Integrate gdata-provider into product

Timezones Registry, updatable [edit]

  • for branch maintainance mode
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