Calendar Talk:Lightning:Roadmap
Since many users use PDA and smartphone as primary PIM, I would strongly suggest to push "Device synchronization" higher in roadmap.
- Not gonna happen. We need a base first, before we can start working on synchronization
Suggestions for Lightning 1.0:
- Make Fully Integrate the Calendar 1.0 branch with the Thunderbird 2.0 branch.
- Add features
- Make Lightning less suck
- Add support for obscure platforms and asynchronous processors
(moved from main page, added there by Troll)
- XML/XSLT temlates for mail templates, somewhat like stationery but *useful*
- As for PIM functionality, a better framework for holding notes would be nice. Not like sticky notes, not like a tasks list, but something like a re-orderable, heirarchical system for holding entire pages of notes, pictures, etc. This is really pie-in-the-sky, but hey...
- Tagging, a'la Google Mail. Once you use it you love it.
Better addressbook functionality
Thunderbird's addressbook is fairly e-mail centric. It'd be nice to have a more fully featured addressbook. Options for more e-mails, import from outlook CSV files, change the layout for viewing a contact to display more info on the page. Resizable contact dialog to show more info (instead of tabs).
Relational Address book please
Well, as long as we're improving address book: make it relational(ish). Not heavyweight relational; maybe relational is not even the right term. What I want is the ability to "normalize" my contacts. Each entry is a location or a person or whatever, and each entry has attributed like phone number or address. And then there's the relationships between them (familial [relative, spouse/SO, friend, ...], location<->person, ...).
Use case
Several people live at the same location (that's the relationship between each person and the location). A location has an address, and can have a phone number. A person can have a phone number (mobile, since land line is associated with the location). Stuff like that. If I have 4 entries for different people at the same location (office, home, whatever) and that location changes its number, I only want to have to change it once, not 4 times.
Similarly for individual vs. company (i.e. location) email addresses.