Calendar:Calendar Subscription

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Calendar Subscription Behavior

The following proposal defines a new behavior to subscribe to a WCAP calendar server like the Sun Java Systems Calendar. An account on this server is needed to subscribe to such a server.

Integration in the Thunderbird File-New-Account wizard

Lightning should be seamless integrated with the existing Thunderbird user interface. Therefore the File - New - Account Wizard will be extended by an option to create/add a new Calendar.

Extended account wizard dialog

Lightning's Create New Calendar Wizard

If the user decided to add a calendar to Lightning, the Create New Calendar wizard pages are shown inside Thunderbird's wizard or .

Step 1 of New Calendar wizard dialog

Lightning Create New Calendar Wizard – Step 2 for Network Calendar

The protocol definition should be removed as soon as we could auto detect the protocol used by the server. Users do not care about protocols.

Page 2 of New Calendar wizuard dialog

The context menu offers a new entry Subscribe Calendars if a WCAP server is present

New calendar context menu

New Subscribe Calendars dialog

new subscribe calendar dialog

The new Subscribe Calendars dialog allows to search for the calendar name, real name or e-mail address. The Search button could be replaced by an auto search feature i.e. when the user stopped typing for half a second.