Calendar:1.0 Product Planning

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Calendar Product Planning

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This is only a draft, some of these bugs just look like they make sense for 1.0 by their title.

Access

bug 242112	Make calendar keyboard accessible
bug 260121	Make datepicker and timepicker keyboard accessible
bug 472448	Minimonth missing accessible name and navigation
bug 468863	The richlistbox item for a reminder has two buttons with empty accessible names
bug 427403	CTRL+Cursor Down for selecting multiple items from a list of Mail messages or Tasks loses focus (need new keyboard shortcut for Lightning's Today tab)

Alarm

bug 491118	reminder for recurring non-dismissed events fire again after hibernation (double/twice in alarm popup)
bug 349673	Alarm dialog shown for new events that are scheduled in the past
bug 360916	Snoozed alarm fires at old event time although event time has been changed
bug 375210	Revisit alarm dialog dismissal/snooze user experience
bug 401731	Modified Occurrence Shown twice in alarm dialog
bug 442607	Reminder details link does not work if calendar window is closed
bug 466032	Reminder dialog without events appears when experimental cache is enabled
bug 528329	Alarm is not fired when dismissed and later set reminder again
bug 475376	Unify wording: "reminder" instead of "alarm"
bug 329387	Dismissed alarm behave erratically when event is moved

Backend

bug 354935	undo after moving a single occurrence does the wrong thing
bug 331112	RFC description of WKST does not appear to be followed
bug 341537	Leaking factories/modules for some components
bug 516802	Refactor & cleanup mode and calendar view switching + today pane code
bug 523860	Do not escape double quote character " to \" in iCalendar output (potential RFC 2445 violation)
bug 536209	Update internal timezone database from version 2009p to version 2010b
bug 543698	Moved occurrences of repeating all-day events are displayed on new and original date

Build

bug 405007	Create unittest buildbots for Calendar
bug 460027	Check what files can be removed during upgrade to 1.0 and add them to removed-files.in
bug 545838	Run mozmill tests as part of the build process
bug 413641	Launch Lightning Release Notes on update of extension
bug 346278	Allow building localized lightning langpacks

Cache

bug 412963	[Offline] Disabled cached calendars become visible after synchronization
bug 462277	turn on cached calendars
bug 462305	Lots of warning messages in Error Console when in offline mode
bug 466686	Can't create cached calendars right away
bug 502936	cached calendars should not be refreshed at launch time
bug 456208	Disabling calendars autorefresh does not prevent cached calendar sync
bug 479867	Cached calendars don't set id correctly, causing duplicate events to be shown for multiple cached calendars

Calendar Access

bug 415557	As I add more individual calendars, some of them start to disappear for no reason
bug 421600	local copy of remote calendar is corrupted if edited while server is inaccessible
bug 532874	Unable to add new events or tasks because units for alarm preferences are missing

Crashes

bug 547168

crash [@ libgobject-2.0.so.0.2200.4@0xc2c0] [@ wait_for_retrieval] on double-click, instead of opening New Event dialog

Dialogs

bug 371809	Task dialog: Disable repeat drop-down menu for VTODO with no DTSTART
bug 373176	Task dialog: Display of timezone is wrong
bug 373251	Can open multiple windows of a single event/task from Agenda, Task lists and Unifinder
bug 390293	Event/task dialog does nothing upon "Save and close" when Thunderbird/Sunbird main window is closed
bug 391673	Event dialog: Reminder List contains too many items
bug 392448	Event dialog:	edited values in date/time combo boxes not always saved
bug 395287	Event dialog: Cannot enable timezone option for ending time
bug 402421	Saving NEW Event/Task creates a new event each time
bug 415237	adding a category on a completed task resets the percentage from 100% to 0%
bug 432437	Wrong display of 'busy' marked recurring all day event in attendees dialog
bug 529813	Invite Attendees dialog: icons are messed up in case of missing participation role
bug 534045	Invite Attendees dialog: icons are messed up in case of participation role NON-PARTICIPANT
bug 362948	Event dialog: Privacy toolbar button should toggle privacy state
bug 450318	No error on duplicate calendar address, stalls
bug 394195	Dialogs need a scroll bar or minimum height/width

Dragging

bug 459641	Tabs and tab shortcut buttons should perform as drop target to convert events tasks, e-mail messages
bug 535353	When event start time=12:10 is dragged to start time=full hour then it is released at full hour +10min
bug 367131	Allow click and drag event creation in time scale (hours column)

Errors

bug 325519	ICS provider provides almost no useful diagnostic info on errors
bug 517695	Lots of error messages when closing calendar tab
bug 546003	Closing Calendar or Task tab throws "An error occurred updating the ... command"
bug 431265	No error messages or status if network calendar is unavailable
bug 460075	Consolidate logging, support fine-grained logging
bug 314594	No error message if invalid URL used for new calendar, creates invalid calendars
bug 359016	JS error 'this.currentItem has no properties' in calItemBase propertyEnumerator

Email Scheduling

bug 506468	Accepting reschedule of event via email does not work
bug 463931	handle better iTIP SMTP errors

Localizability

bug 339833	Localizability issues with month and weekday name letter cases
bug 359353	Event dialog has localization issues
bug 402376	Custom reminder dialog is hardly localizable
bug 394771	Lightning calendar view context menus use wrong entities
bug 457461	Different keyboard shortcuts for the same actions in main window and event/task dialog
bug 500916	Access key conflict in menu "Events and Tasks"
bug 511518	Calendar/Task Tab title needs dedicated string

Performance

bug 412914	Enable offline caching for a calendar with many events -> startup horrible slow
bug 530423	The méga awful slowness of sunbird with caldav schedules
bug 270501	the list of events for the listbox (unifinder) is sorted tree times
bug 315959	profile ICS calendar reading
bug 361424	month view day boxes should draw eventboxes in a batch
bug 362987	Large calendars with many recurring items slow down the app
bug 373631	deselect a calendar subscription -> no decrease of memory consume
bug 413296	Leaking object on window-close
bug 413297	Leaking object after creation of event
bug 429284	Leak: sun-calendar-event-dialog-freebusy.xml
bug 450671	Unresponsive script warnings on calendar creation, event creation, profile startup (stop script / continue)
bug 462280	profile Tb startup time with and without Lightning
bug 496893	The displaying of many alarms seems to take excessive resources
bug 498968	Create a new, faster storage provider
bug 501689	Investigate making storage asynchronous
bug 403922	Multiweek scroll / next / previous is too slow with multiple calendars
bug 466742	Event color changing actions shouldn't need re-calculation of calendar view [i.e. changing calendar of event]
bug 501302	Improve View performance by removing unneeded boxes (fixes regression: alarm icon cropped, misplaced)

Preferences

bug 349987	53 Strict warning: Expected color but found 'null'. (in editCategory.xul)
bug 530101	52 Remove extensions.getMore* preferences

Providers

bug 435854	Wrong Server Response to inbox query leads to infinite loop of requests
bug 436641	Sends too big query to server if there are many events (over 1000) causing all events to disappear
bug 523555	Cannot add CalDAV calendar via HTTPS if server has invalid/self-signed certificate
bug 441992 <t3:21 caldav calendar isn't switched off after canceling the login dialog
bug 438369 <t7:13 Create database backup before performing a database upgrade

Task View

bug 336117 ToDo list does not sort correctly when 'task completed' checkbox is checked

bug 364574 No refresh in agenda and todo tabpage after 'reload remote calendars'

bug 412511 Improve keyboard navigation in task list

bug 525430 Task view doesn't show the attachments for selected tasks

bug 351146 tasks: selection color is not system selection color

bug 412803 Add selector of writeable calendars to the "click here to create a task" line

Unifinder

bug 423320 <59:33 Calendar Unifinder: Setting filter updates tree incorrectly

bug 455552 <04:40 Unifinder incorrectly updates and displays occurrences of repeating events

Calendar Frontend

bug 547593	Delete Key does not work on selected event in views
bug 340025	sort out context menu architecture for the views
bug 342933	Differentiate between tasks and events in day/week view
bug 366139	Wrong end time set on multi-day events
bug 372424	iTIP/iMIP invitation bar doesn't disappear after changing e-mail folder
bug 375043	Weekly planner layout ->	week days in wrong sequence
bug 389281	Write to read-only ICS store creates event on screen
bug 400267	short events besides a whole-day spanning event are leaving the time scale grid
bug 417241	Delete button should be disabled when focus is on agenda pane and selected Event is readonly
bug 421986	Adding events to invisible CalDAV calendars does not force visibility
bug 424808	addItem in calendar-month-day-box scales badly
bug 431076	Add keyboard navigation/accessibility for the calendar views
bug 431390	Context menu actions should relate to position and type of target clicked
bug 435493	Minimonth doesn't respect Sunbirds timezone setting, always uses system timezone
bug 448028	All-day event box' background overlaps calendar header
bug 455045	current day highlight should trump currently selected day
bug 465512	New navigation bar contains some flaws under MacOS
bug 470425	event boxes overlap [war on boxes: attack of the clone bugs]
bug 471378	Create gnome theme (gnomestripe)
bug 479758	Calendar/task shortcut buttons are not available if the tabbar is hidden (after setting "mail.tabs.autoHide" to true)
bug 482110	calendar stays hidden after adding event to it; new event not visible
bug 494598	Update Lightning icons to match Thunderbird 3.0 default theme
bug 508041	rowCountChanged is passing wrong numbers in calendar list
bug 520667	Pressing Select All (Ctrl + A) in the tasks view selects all the items in the calendar view
bug 533096	Consolidate theming to make more css common
bug 534593	Cannot delete tasks from Today Pane in Mail tab
bug 543694	Mark complete doesnt function properly
bug 547445	Calendar does not open at today's date
bug 547533	Day/week views: when creating events dragging the mouse, the title label is misplaced in the center of the events' box
bug 350848	no confirmation when open/delete repeating event from unifinder
bug 357112	Drag and drop of multiday-event doesn't drop on days the shadow suggests
bug 419983	Glitch in animated alarm bell image; animation doesn't look smooth
bug 444738	Tool tip of Today buttons is inconsistent
bug 512779	Style pinstripe theme splitters like Thunderbird
bug 531459	Replace XPMs with PNGs as Linux window icons
bug 515802	Add 'Tasks' and 'Calendar' buttons to the main toolbar
bug 500156	Investigate the influence of native theming of	groupboxes on Windows
bug 273279	no visual status mark on tentative or cancelled events/tasks
bug 502095	"Write" popup menu and Today pane statusbar item have odd icons
bug 404900	Add Accept/Decline to Calendar item's context menu