[buug] local calendar app

[Emory Taylor]

I have a solution you might be interested but it has a very big "but"
attached to it.

I think many people have been suffering from sub par calendaring. The
solution I am currently trying to use right now comes from the pimlico
project which is a very new PIM "suite" of standalone apps meant to
work well on different handheld devices (maemo platform and openmoko
specifically) but they are all very lightweight gtk apps based on top
of EDS so there's good integration into the desktop without all the
evolution bloat (it will share all the data with evolution if you
don't run in terror from it immediately). Combine it with a tinymail
based email client in the future and I might even want to go return to
a desktop based mail solution.

BUT the pimlico suite is under heavy development right now as it is
very new, so, um, recurrence isn't currently supported in dates
(version 0.4.2) from the gui. you would have to fire up evolution to
get recurrence to work properly right now. Evolution (2.10.1),
however, can easily do recurrence. One would have to wait for the
dates app to mature a little more, or you can hold your nose and fire
up a recent version of evo if you aren't completely allergic to it
(2.10.x hasn't been all that terrible - at least as a calendar
solution)

sorry for losing a lot of geek cred by not just suggesting
ssh+screen+emacs? I'm still not sure why you've ruled that out.

Here's the requisite links
Pimlico
http://www.pimlico-project.org/
Debian/Ubuntu repository homepage
http://debian.o-hand.com/

On 17 Apr 2007 10:48:21 -0400, Ian Zimmerman <itz at madbat.mine.nu> wrote:
>
> I am desperately searching for a serviceable calendar/appointment
> program.
>
> So far I have been using the calendar module of Emacs.  As some of you
> know I have been initiated into the Church of Emacs, so the obvious
> objections don't apply, in fact I like it quite well as far as usability
> goes.  The problem is that now I want to share the data with the laptop,
> and the pattern I have developed in such cases is to export the data
> to a server.  This has worked well in other cases (example: browser
> bookmarks) but it wouldn't work for Emacs because I keep Emacs open
> all the time, and there are occassions when I have it open on both
> the big box and the laptop, so a race arises (the last closed Emacs
> wins and gets to store its changes).
>
> Now, although I have root on the server, I don't control it physically,
> and this makes me feel uneasy about storing the data in plain text
> form.  No problem: just add a gpg command to the script doing the
> export/import.  The reason I mention this is to rule out various web
> based solutions (phpgroupware, horde, not to mention Google Calendar),
> as well as variants on serving the data files with NFS.
>
> So, the field is narrowed to local apps which are lightweight enough
> that they can be opened and closed each time a change is made.  But here
> the choice seems pretty dismal.  Most such apps including Sunbird can't
> even handle our next holiday: Victoria Day, the Monday on or before
> May 24th, or equivalently, the 2nd last Monday in May.  The closest
> perhaps is "remind"; I only object to its ugly (to me) Tk GUI,
> and the annoying fact that in its reporting mode (like "remind -h '*2' ")
> it doesn't output the time of appointments, only date.
>
> Suggestions.
>
> --
> This line is completely ham.
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