From: boyan.pen...@gmail.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Hello, > Running Thunderbird on Stretch... > For a host of reasons, calendar-provider has never worked for one > particular gmail account I have, and I have tried using the calDAV > interface to get the events imported and visible. To use this, Im > relying on OAuth securing my login to google"s caldav api. > The issue is when I start Thunderbird and get the Oauth login, none of > the buttons respond -- the "next" button, when clicked, does not > advance the UI window to the one where you type your password.
It is most likely that google keeps changing parameters so often as to make nothing else work with their servers other than their own crappy software. This way by the time package maintainer releases an update and people receive it something changes again. One can barely keep up with their webpages, news, etc with a simple browser. Whenever I had to reinstall TB anywhere, the first thing I did was to disable and uninstall the calendar "app". An email pkg should stick to email and plugins should come separate. So mozilla is not that much better than other corporations. Too bad debian opted to abandon their own projects of iceweasel etc but in terms of security these pkgs are nightmares. Before someone jumps on me and criticizes back please explain why an email program will need to use cookies, among other things it does. Free and open? If you say so. One birdy flew over the cookoo. So if you trust google so much with your personal communication and whereabouts, why use linux? I was looking at distrowatch the otherday and there is a port of android for intel/amd machines. Why not run android in your main computer and download the google app? I bet that works!
