Quick help for those who want to manage their google calendars using Thunderbird: you can use the combination of Lightning addon (based on the Sunbird calendar one) and the Provider for Google Calendar addon.
I’m using here Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) and Thunderbird 2.0.0.22, and I faced the following problem: after installing both addons, I wasn’t able to create a new calendar, it was showing greyed. So, after googling a little, I found out that one of the requirements for Lightning to work properly is the package libstdc++5, as you can see here. So, you need to install this package before installing Lightning.
Like this:
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
After that, just download the addons .xpi files and install them – In Thunderbird, Tools -> Addons -> Install… Restart Thunderbird as requested and when it opens again, you should see three buttons on the lower left, that are Mail, Calendar and Tasks.
Click on the Calendar one, and with right click you should have a Add Calendar… option. Note: you *must* be in the Calendar view to see it.
Click on it. You’ll need the Private XML address of your Google Calendar. To get it, go to your Calendar page on Google, and right click the arrow next to your calendar. Choose “Calendar settings”, and search for the Private address. Click on the XML orange button, and voila! There it is. Copy it and go back to Thunderbird.
After clicking in the “New Calendar..” option, choose “In the network” calendar, and then “Google”, and paste the address. It now should ask you your Google credentials, and if authenticated sucessfully, you should be asked to choose a name and a color for it to be displayed in Thunderbird. Lightning doesn’t import the name neither the color used in the web interface.
That’s it! Worked for me. Hope this helps!
otubo
July 25, 2009 at 1:33 am
Question: Does it give you RW access? Or just RO? I’ve seen this before a little time ago and that time I got only RO, don’t if it has changed or not.
ursula
April 7, 2010 at 12:07 pm
It gives you write access, just not sure you have all options as the gcalendar web interface has. Tested just now and worked fine to update an event. I’m running Ubuntu Karmic (about to upgrade to Lucid LTS, yay!), Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (20090817) and Lightning 0.9.
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