276706 - Showing upcoming events on the desktop wallpaper [extension fodder]

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Rohezal]

Hi,
hope this is the right way to submit an enhancement to Sunbird. If not, please 
move it there, sorry for the inconvenience.

It would be a very cool feature, if Sunbird was able to write upcoming events 
onto an image file. Then it would be possible to have desktop wallpapers which 
have the most important infos right there.

A program that has that feature is Active Desktop Calendar from XemiComputers 
for Windows. Have a look at the screenshots here: 
http://www.xemico.com/adc/index.html
Active Desktop Calendar also adds desktop interaction (I mean, you can click on 
an entry or calendar date on your desktop wallpaper and the relevant program 
menu will pop up). This might be difficult to achieve, since the mozialla suite 
comes for a lot of OSs, but this is just a convenience issue.

I have used this function for some time and find it quite useful if you only 
have few events every day. As far as I know, Outlook and many other commercial 
programs do not have such a feature, so it might increase Sunbird's popularity. 
;)

Comment 1

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 2

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Marking WONTFIX per decision on QA working session. It's out of our scope and therefore extension fodder. We should look at other ways to inform the user, e.g. minimizetotray support and sliders (like Tb).