1969536 - difficulties creating calendars in ubuntu

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, defect)

Description

[Ray Kiddy]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2025-05-30 13-54-36.png

version: 128.11.0esr (64-bit)
running on: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

I am always unable to figure out how to create a calendar and I have figured something out. It is just in the wrong place.

In order to create a calendar, I need to go to the hamburger menu, select "New Account" and then, in there, one sees "Calendar".

But I do not want to create an account. I want to create a Calendar. Why is this under "New Account"? It could be, for example, in the hamburger menu, under ... "Create". Wow. Would that not be simple?

I may be somewhat confused. In several pieces of the documentation, I have seen references to "the Calendar tab" or the "the list of Calendars". Do these appear in the Ubuntu version of the UI? Where are they? It is not clear. I will include a screenshot of my interface. If there is something that I click on this interface to get a list of calendars, can you point to it in a picture?

The list of calendars should be very easily accessible. For example, I have 5 calendars. These are not as useful as they could be because I want to do some "click and select" operation to switch the calendar to only show events from one calendar. How can I do this? Not seeing anywhere a list of the calendars, I cannot tell how to temporarily turn calendars on and off.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

You apparently got Calendar Pane turned off for some reason.
Enable it again through the main menu View | Calendar | Calendar Pane

Comment 2

[Vlad Lucaci, Thunderbird QA (:vlucaci)]

Tried to reproduce this issue with 141.0a1(20250616094944), 140.0b3(20250616211826) and 139.0.2(20250606205843) using , Ubuntu 24 and Ubuntu 25 but did not manage to encounter it.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Ray, tried comment 1?

Comment 4

[Ray Kiddy]

Well, under the Tools menu, I see: "Toolbars", "Layout" and "Folders". So what can I do now?

I looked in the Settings, particularly the Calendar settings, for something like "display calendar pane" and I cannot see it.

Just FYI, I am running on 128.11.0esr (64-bit) on Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS.

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Oh the app menu apparently doesn't have this option.
Hit Alt to show the traditional menu. From that menu, do comment 1.

Comment 6

[Ray Kiddy]

Interesting. I go to the View menu and I can see the Calendar sub-menu but it is disabled. I asmit that this may be a me issue. On the other hand, the conditions I seem to stumble into may be weird but not incorrect behavior. Not sure.

Comment 7

[Ray Kiddy]

Also. Hit Alt... and what? from where?

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Just Alt, with the window focused, will reveal the normal menu

Comment 9

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard. Feel free to reopen if you still see the issue