Provide a way to disable task and calendar
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(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)
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(Reporter: mail, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:79.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/79.0
Steps to reproduce:
After upgrading to Thunderbird 78, Calendar and Tasks are enabled by default. That's great, but please provide a way in about:config or settings to disable this feature for folks who do not need it.
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Updated•5 years ago
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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It seems there are quite a few who have no use for these in 78!!!!!
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Comment 2•5 years ago
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We've done as much as we will do to hide them if not wanted. (Disable all calendar and it's the functionality is basically disabled.)
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Comment 3•5 years ago
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Add to userchrome.css
#calendar-tab-button,
#task-tab-button {
display: none !important;
}
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Comment 4•5 years ago
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(In reply to paulburke@laposte.net from comment #3)
Add to userchrome.css
#calendar-tab-button,
#task-tab-button {
display: none !important;
}
Removes the buttons from the bar!
(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #2)
We've done as much as we will do to hide them if not wanted. (Disable all calendar and it's the functionality is basically disabled.)
Where is this setting? There's a "home" calendar that I cannot seem to remove.
Also, I noticed when I get event invites Thunderbird renders some custom "accept/decline" UI that will add events to the Thunderbird calendar not my system calendar.
Any way to change this behavior? Because this really makes Thunderbird unusable for me....
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Comment 6•5 years ago
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Disabling calendar is more than just hiding UI features. For one thing, the fact that it can't be properly disabled means it is impossible to use a Google Calendar and also use Thunderbird for email, because Thunderbird actively stops me from being able to accept meetings.
When I get an invite now, I get the mentioned custom UI, which only works with any calendar Thunderbird knows about. Since I have no active calendars, responding to the invite is impossible.
If I add the Provider for Google Calendar (PfGC from now on) and add my Google Calendar to Thunderbird, you would think that would help, but sadly no. Thunderbird doesn't consider any calendar from the PfGC writable when handling meeting invites, so responding to an invite is impossible. If I go to the Calendar tab and add an event directly, that works fine, so the calendar is writable, just not when getting a meeting invite.
To summarise: This feature is broken, and disabling it actually makes Thunderbird more usable for me (and apparently some others). Comparing this feature now with how it was when Lightning was an add-on, I don't see any difference. To me, this change is nothing but downgrade.
I get that it works for lots of people (as it did when it was an add-on you could disable), but clearly it doesn't work for some users.
Could we at least get an option to show the original email contents instead of the custom UI?
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