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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Calendar applications
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:08:38
Message-Id: ifl9k7$kd9$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Calendar applications by Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
1 On 12/31/2010 08:35 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
2 > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:55:29AM +0000, Stroller wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On 30/12/2010, at 11:22pm, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
5 >>> ...
6 >>> I'm looking for a lightweight calendar application that can do the following things:
7 >>>
8 >>> Event handling (preferrably also a support for recurring events)
9 >>> Notification of events
10 >>> Handle several calendars at once (as in showing all calendars in one view and preferrably colour coded)
11 >>> Import of other calendars (iCal)
12 >>>
13 >>> I've been looking for an application that matches this but I can't seem to find any.
14 >>
15 >> Hi there,
16 >>
17 >> I'm not being argumentative here, just curious: in what way doesn't Sunbird meet these requirements?
18 >>
19 >> I'm more interested in calendaring servers (and unfortunately the choice of those is pretty dire) and using Apple iCal on MacOS as a front-end, but those sound like really basic requirements, and I'm surprised that any calendar doesn't meet them. iCal certainly meets them all (even with basic local storage), although I appreciate that's not much help to you.
20 >>
21 >
22 > Primarily because I tend to steer away from Mozilla products if I can (they just don't seem to feel right, somehow. (I know, great argument)). I absolutely wouldn't mind setting up a server and using some frontend, the question is just which front end. And when I set out to find calendar I really thought they were very basic requirements. My google-fu told me I was wrong.
23 > But yeah, Sunbird meets the requirements, I'd just prefer to go down another road (if there is one).
24
25 Have you tried Evolution? It's intended to be an open-source replacement for M$ Outlook.
26 It's a lot more than just a calendar client, though, so it's not lightweight..

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Calendar applications Zeerak Mustafa Waseem <zeerak.w@×××××.com>