Howto have thunderbird/lightning open ics files

See https://superuser.com/questions/382022/how-do-i-get-thunderbird-to-open-an-ics-attachment-directly-in-lightnings-calen

For Thunderbird 15.0 / Lightning 1.7 the following procedure works for me:

Open the "Today Pane" ie. the Events panel on the right hand side next to the email list.

Drag&Drop the ics-file onto that pane.

In my case (Kubuntu 12.04) it will create the event. Hope this helps.

Right now there is no feature to open the lighting directly using command line. But mozilla provides an option to open the sunbird client.

There is bug filed for the same. But unfortunately the bug timeline is not active.

We can open an .ics file directly using Evolution, KOrganizer or Calendar. But it is sad that Ubuntu default mail client is unable to add the .ics directly to the calendar system.

I think that the best bug related to this issue is this one: Bug 357480 - Opening or adding .ics files to calendar by double click

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