Lightning Gets a New Look

I just got an update to Lightning on my Windows machine. The main calender view looks a little sharper, I like it. Lightning isn't the perfect calendar application but it's the closest thing I've found. The multi-week view always did seem kind of week to me before. It was hard to tell what months you were looking at. They've tidied that up nicely now. The new style also seems to have less wasted space.

Sharing calendars through iCal is mandatory for me, Lightning isn't the only client that has to use my calendars. It has always dealt with that very nicely. Now I also got an error message about difficulty writing to a calendar file, I think this is new since I used to have occasional silent (and irritating) failures. Error messages aren't fun but they're an improvement on silent failure.

I also see a link in the left-hand pane for invitations but it seems unnecessary since I have none right now. It also looks like it's an unstyled link. I think the invites link might be related to the iMip/iTip support mentioned in the release notes but there doesn't seem to be much more info out there about what these are.

Thanks to the devs out there still hacking away on Sunbird & Lightning. I'm a big fan of the project and I think you're doing a great job.

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