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Holy cow. This is now the third time, so I'm really upset, and it was even worse this time. I have a linux box and a Mac. I sometimes have appointments. The Mac is almost always asleep (as it's a laptop) but I can bring it everywhere with me. Therefore, I'd like the ability to make appointments on either machine and be warned whether I'm at my computer or not. The Mac can email me, and thus can email my phone, which means I can get notified no matter where I am, but like I said, the Mac is almost always asleep. This is annoying, but is not the Mac's fault. Because my linux box is never asleep (I've got a dual proc box, so I couldn't even put it to sleep if I wanted to -- hate), it'd be especially nice if I could have something email me from my linux box, even if I annoyingly can't use the calendar on either machine and somehow sync the calendars. So, of course, I'm experimenting with Ximian's Evolution. I need the ability to check my IMAP email with a GUI client sometimes so I can look at pictures and such (which pine is not much good at), but I especially need its calendaring abilities (or apparent lack thereof). In both of these areas, Evolution fails quite miserably, and sometimes spectacularly. This is Evo 1.4.6 on Debian. Calendaring just plain falls down on functionality. Apparently. The two features I need are some kind calendar syncronizing capability and the ability to email meeting notices so I can send them to my phone. There is a calander syncronizing protocol (ical) but Evolution only supports it via email, not via an automated mechanism like WebDAV (like Apple's stupidly named iCal), so I can't easily synchronize between my Mac and my linux box. That part sucks. But Evolution also can't email notices. Or can it? It's there as an option, but it's greyed out. Why? I've no idea; why add it but not make it available? I can't figure it out, but apparently it's fixed in 1.5, which (of course) debian doesn't have. So apparently I could do what I want, except I can't for some reason. Even better, though, is how email functionality falls on its face. Actually, it might not; I don't know. Every time I try to send an email, I type something into the "To:" header box, and it pops up with a list of potential matches. I have found nothing other than 'pkill -9 evolution' that can get rid of that box. I select the email I want and hit return, or double click, or triple click, or dance, or whatever the hell I want, and nothing at all happens. Even better, this is (somehow) a globally modal dialig (you know, like Mozilla always does that pisses you off so much?), which means that until it goes away I can't focus on any other windows. Which means that my X session is effectively dead unless I can get in some other way. So, I have to SSH in with my Mac and 'pkill -9 evolution'. This has now happened 3 out of 3 times I've tried to use the most recent version of Evolution. Even worse, when I killed the instance the latest time, it somehow managed to move all of my windows down by about 10 pixels, on both of my monitors, which means around 40 windows. I'm very excited. Oh yes, very excited. Anyone got any linux calendaring recommendations? Luke -- Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://abstractive.org | http://reductiveconsulting.com
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