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Rename tasks lists from 2 different Google accounts (append e-mail address) to keep them distinguishable

Open tobbi opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

Describe the problem and steps to reproduce it:

(Please include as many details as possible.)

What happened?

I added task lists from two different Google accounts to Thunderbird. Both of these calendars were called "<My Name> task list". They're very hard to distinguish from one another

What did you expect to happen?

I think this is kinda an edge case, but I'd expect task list names to be unique. I believe, Lightning should offer to rename the task list automatically to include the e-mail address of the account (or something similar).

Sorry about the e-mail btw, I could've just googled where to report issues

tobbi avatar May 05 '20 17:05 tobbi

You can rename lists in google, it does not have to be the default "task list" You can also rename them in TB. Right click on the associated calendar, go into properties and change the name.

alexivkin avatar May 14 '20 02:05 alexivkin

I know that it's possible to rename lists. I just think that maybe Lightning should do a check for duplicate names when adding a calendar. I'd assume that a lot of people use multiple Google Accounts and don't bother with renaming their calendars after setting up their accounts.

tobbi avatar May 14 '20 13:05 tobbi

I have discovered that you can rename it from the tasks icon inside the web interface of Gmail (not from Calendar), this name is kept when you add the calendar in Thunderbird.

ghost avatar Sep 16 '21 06:09 ghost