Hello together, this is my first mail on this list because I don't want to escalate 'small' things that could better be solved within launchpad, but I really think this very long lasting bug should be brought to your attention:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/545778 Since I remember the localization of Lightning - the Thunderbird Calendar - in Ubuntu is broken (better to say: not present). In Ubuntu wikis all over the world the recommended (dirty) workaround has ever been to avoid the official xul-ext-lightning package and instead install Lightning via Thunderbird Addon functionality. This workaround often caused problems in the past because the Lightning versions provided by Thunderbird Addons and the installed Thunderbird from ubuntu packages didn't fit together. Some months ago the Thunderbird people finally decided to distribute lightning (and its localization) as integrated part of their official downloadable thunderbird install package. Because of this they stopped the distribution of separate lightning packages via Addons. At this time there is no practical way to have Thunderbird + Lightning completely translated in Ubuntu! The thunderbird localization of ubuntu doesn't include lightning translation and xul-ext-lightning has no localization too. The only way to get a working and localized Lightning is to download the official Thunderbird package from www.thunderbird.net, extract the installer and copy the included (translated) lightning addon into the right sub folder of your own thunderbird. (And those steps have to be repeated manually for every new Thunderbird/Lightning version!) Please (PLEASE) find a solution for this. The bugreport I linked above is nearly nine years old but the problem itself exists even longer. I don't see any progress here and I think this is due to misunderstanding and confusion where the localization of lightning has to take place. In my opinion the best solution would be to integrate lightning completely into the ubuntu thunderbird package as the Thunderbird people did and then provide the translation as part of thunderbird localization. But I'm neither developer nor package maintainer. Perhaps a separate xul-ext-lightning + separate localization is the better way. But please do something! :-) Thanks for time and your attention! Golando Gorgs
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