Re: Thunderbird-38.0.1 integrates lightning? Very disturbing!!
On 30 June 2015 at 15:16, Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
Hi dear developers,
after upgrading to tb-38.0.1, thunderbird-lightning-3.3-5.fc22.x86_64
has been obsoleted (as the formus are telling), but still the addons
manager of tb shows lightning as installed extension which can be
activated and removed.
Because I thougt that tb-lighning is now obsolete, I removed the
extension, but then I get rid totally from the calendars. So my
question: how t get the calendars running in TB without installing
lightning from the moz. extension pages?
IIUC, what's happening here is that they bundle the extension with
Thunderbird 38 so it's installed and enabled by default; so when you
create a new Thunderbird profile,
/usr/lib*/thunderbird/distribution/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}/
will get copied to ~/.thunderbird/<PROFILE_NAME>/extensions; that also
happens if you run 38.0.1 for the first time and didn't have the
Lightning extension already installed (I was surprised to see the
calendar pane in Thunderbird after updating to 38.0.1, since I didn't
have that extension installed previously).
Also (IIUC) Lightning will be updated in your profile, just like any
other user-installed extension.
So what you can do is just copy the dir from
/usr/lib*/thunderbird/distribution/extensions and restart Thunderbird
or re-install it from addons.mozilla.org, I think either would lead to
the same result.
--
Ahmad Samir