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On 12/31/2010 08:35 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: |
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> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:55:29AM +0000, Stroller wrote: |
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>> On 30/12/2010, at 11:22pm, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: |
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>>> I'm looking for a lightweight calendar application that can do the following things: |
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>>> Event handling (preferrably also a support for recurring events) |
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>>> Notification of events |
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>>> Handle several calendars at once (as in showing all calendars in one view and preferrably colour coded) |
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>>> Import of other calendars (iCal) |
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>>> I've been looking for an application that matches this but I can't seem to find any. |
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>> Hi there, |
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>> I'm not being argumentative here, just curious: in what way doesn't Sunbird meet these requirements? |
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>> 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. |
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> 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. |
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> But yeah, Sunbird meets the requirements, I'd just prefer to go down another road (if there is one). |
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Have you tried Evolution? It's intended to be an open-source replacement for M$ Outlook. |
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It's a lot more than just a calendar client, though, so it's not lightweight.. |