Posted on Monday, May 15 2006 @ 13:31:36 CEST by LSDsmurf
Goals of the 0.3 alpha2 Release
Sunbird 0.3 alpha2 is not intended to be a production-quality release.
Instead, it is being released largely in order to showcase/test the advanced
new view code. This includes:
Inline editing of event titles
Restoration of drag and drop editing in the day/week views
In addition to showcasing and testing the new views, Sunbird 0.3 alpha2 aims
to fix many bugs identified in Sunbird 0.3a1. Some highlights are:
Ability to modify individual elements of a recurring event
Fewer import/export errors
Better error reporting
Improved alarm functionality
A new, more intuitive New Event dialog
Better Mac support
Many other minor bug fixes
Limitations and Known Bugs
Because of architectural changes in the Mozilla core code, Sunbird 0.3
alpha2 will not work on Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows ME
Dataloss may occur if you attempt to use Sunbird with calendar files
created by other calendaring programs
CalDAV support remains extremely basic
Shutting down Sunbird immediately after a change has been made (within 5
seconds) may result in the change not being recorded
Sunbird 0.3 alpha2 does not work for dates before 1970 or after 2031
Snooze functionality is not currently present
Alarms for recurring events may not be reliable
Sunbird 0.3 alpha1 profiles are upgraded automatically to Sunbird 0.3
alpha2, but are then no longer compatible with Sunbird 0.3 alpha1 due to
updates to the internal SQLite database
Sunbird 0.3 alpha2 will not automatically migrate your old calendar files
from Sunbird 0.2. You will have to manually import them from your profile
folder or resubscribe to your remote calendar files
Regressions from Sunbird 0.3 alpha2
If you have conflicting events at one time in the calendar, other,
non-conflicting events on the same day appear too narrow
Location/Description information is no longer shown in the day/week views
All day events simply appear with no time, rather than having a star icon
It is not possible to select multiple events in the views. It still
remains possible to select multiple events in the unifinder
Similarly, 'Select All' in the 'Edit' menu does not work
Sunbird 0.3 alpha2 reports many 'Failed to load XPCOM component' errors in
the JavaScript console upon startup, however no functionality is lost
Program Information Category:
Tools and Utilities Type:
Free Version: 0.3 alpha 2 Size: 8.8MB Works on: Windows
