Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Viktor on March 6, 2013 ·

As I have already said in my previous reviews, I love this addon as it provides a visual upgrade to Lightning in Thunderbird which is not only aesthetically pleasing but it actually enhances the usability of the calendar function, particularly if you are using TB on an Exchange server. With this addon and the Exchange provider, Lightning becomes better calendar client for the Exchange server than Outlook, while keeping all the benefits of TB over Outlook. There is, however, one issue that I would like to see fixed - I expected this to be done in Lightning, but my second-best guess would be this addon. When displaying an event that lasts for multiple days, I would like to see it running accross the days rather than repeating it for each day. Not sure if that can be done outside Lightning, but I would really hope so. Thanks!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (4.4). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Viktor on Oct. 13, 2012 ·

I use this add-on for a long time and always liked it but was not particularly enthusiastic. However, the new 'apply category colour...' feature is the best thing recently introduced helping my calendar handling. There was, however, something that worked differently for me than described in https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/calendar-tweaks/reviews/388984/ and there is a bug introduced in 4.1 as well. What worked differently is that although the feature was enabled on my machine on 4.0, installing 4.1 disabled it (got panicking for a moment). However, when enabled, there were still some events without the category colour. When checked, I have found out that if the category name contains a space (i.e. more than 1 word), then it is not applied. Please fix it. Reading some complaints I have figured that if there was an option to apply the calendar colour in case there is no category assigned, would make more people happy. It could also be helpful for those who receive lots of invitations in various Exchange server calendars.

Keep up the good work!

This is what I call quick response: in less then 24 hours the bug was fixed. Well done and thanks!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (4.1). 

by DW-dev (Developer) on Oct. 14, 2012 ·

With regards to the first point, you are right, the guidance in the review reply was incorrect. The "coloring-events-by-category" feature is ALWAYS disabled when Calendar Tweaks 4.1 is installed.

With regards to the second point, there is a bug in Calendar Tweaks 4.1 which stops the category colors being applied if there are spaces in the category names. This bug is fixed in Calendar Tweaks 4.2.

Version 4.2 has been submitted to Mozilla for review prior to public release.

If you want, you can download Version 4.2 immediately at:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/calendar-tweaks/versions/