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mozilla calendar extension, pocket review
It's too damned big.
I have a larger problem with the Mozilla family: they all identify their windows as whatever the top-level window is. In other words, for me, the Firefox main window identifies as Firefox-bin, as does the Calendar window. In Mozilla it used be that the browser identified as navigator:browser and the mail client as mail:3pane; now they all identify as Mozilla-bin.
I use a virtual desktop. For those of you in the non-geek seats, that means that I've got a doodad on my desktop that extends it to 8 times the size of the physical screen. So rather than the physical screen showing me what's on my desktop, it shows me what's on 1/8th of my desktop, and gives me a little icon showing me how the other 7/8ths are laid out. I've used this setup since about 1994, with the only major change being that it used be 6x the physical desktop instead of 8x, but I got busier.
My general arrangement of things is to have email on one desktop, Mozilla on another, XChat on a third, and Skype on a fourth. After that, desktops get used according to what I'm doing, but usually there's another emacs session on a fifth desktop, and the remainder get taken up with terminals. XMMS generally gets put on the Skype desktop as there's plenty space there.
That's a lot of stuff to arrange, particularly if things are starting automatically. So I have some rules in the virtual desktop doodad to say, "if a thing calling itself Mozilla starts up, move it to the second desktop on the top row, and don't actually bring up that desktop - leave my visible desktop where it is, thanks". And now you see the problem. I'd like to launch the calendar and, because it's So Damned Big, have it come up on another desktop that I can designate by rule for the purpose of Calendar-related-programme-activities. Unfortunately, because it pops up and says, "I'm Firefox!" it ends up on the same desktop as my browser. Further, even if I do move it to another desktop, anything windows it pops up appear on the Firefox desktop because they're not marked as Transient windows, they're marked as Application windows. None of this would be a particular problem if the calendar was a small, tidy window that I could tuck into the Firefox page somewhere without obscuring too much of either it or the browser.
And thus, Mozilla Calendar Extension is Too Damned Big.
I have a larger problem with the Mozilla family: they all identify their windows as whatever the top-level window is. In other words, for me, the Firefox main window identifies as Firefox-bin, as does the Calendar window. In Mozilla it used be that the browser identified as navigator:browser and the mail client as mail:3pane; now they all identify as Mozilla-bin.
I use a virtual desktop. For those of you in the non-geek seats, that means that I've got a doodad on my desktop that extends it to 8 times the size of the physical screen. So rather than the physical screen showing me what's on my desktop, it shows me what's on 1/8th of my desktop, and gives me a little icon showing me how the other 7/8ths are laid out. I've used this setup since about 1994, with the only major change being that it used be 6x the physical desktop instead of 8x, but I got busier.
My general arrangement of things is to have email on one desktop, Mozilla on another, XChat on a third, and Skype on a fourth. After that, desktops get used according to what I'm doing, but usually there's another emacs session on a fifth desktop, and the remainder get taken up with terminals. XMMS generally gets put on the Skype desktop as there's plenty space there.
That's a lot of stuff to arrange, particularly if things are starting automatically. So I have some rules in the virtual desktop doodad to say, "if a thing calling itself Mozilla starts up, move it to the second desktop on the top row, and don't actually bring up that desktop - leave my visible desktop where it is, thanks". And now you see the problem. I'd like to launch the calendar and, because it's So Damned Big, have it come up on another desktop that I can designate by rule for the purpose of Calendar-related-programme-activities. Unfortunately, because it pops up and says, "I'm Firefox!" it ends up on the same desktop as my browser. Further, even if I do move it to another desktop, anything windows it pops up appear on the Firefox desktop because they're not marked as Transient windows, they're marked as Application windows. None of this would be a particular problem if the calendar was a small, tidy window that I could tuck into the Firefox page somewhere without obscuring too much of either it or the browser.
And thus, Mozilla Calendar Extension is Too Damned Big.