It is still in development but it is a great intitiative of Teester because it’s a good way to integrate Thunderbird with Gnome.

The plugin is written in Python, and it needs the python-evolution binding. Now i will explain you how to install it. I am using Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex 64 bit version.

Obviously you need on your system Thunderbird and its calendar extension: Lightning.

Open Synaptic and install these packages and their dependencies:

python2.5-dev, python-gtk2-dev, libecal1.2-dev,
libgdk-pixbuf-dev, libebook1.2-dev

or using a terminal:

sudo apt-get install python2.5-dev python-gtk2-dev libecal1.2-dev \
libgdk-pixbuf-dev libebook1.2-dev

Download the evolution-python binding from Conduit site.

Open a terminal and digit:

tar zxvf evolution-python-0.0.4
cd evolution-python-0.0.4
./configure
make
sudo make install

Well done, now evolution-python bindings are installed. Now download Evolution Mirror add-on and add it to your Thunderbird Add-ons.

Open Evolution, create an account. You have to do this because it creates some basic data such as the Personal calendar.

Now open your Thunderbird and start add Tasks or Events and you’ll see them on the Gnome Clock applet.

As i have already said, the plugin is still in development, for now it does not add events and tasks that has been already inserted before. It also merge all calendars’ data in one unique Evolution calendar. These are some missing but i think and hope that they will be fixed soon.

Anyway is a great work! I hope to have time to help the developer in this add-on, also because it will be very useful with my still-in-development tool called SyncIt. Take a look on my Trac to know something about it even if it is not updated and poorly documented.