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On Tue, 4 May 2004, Yoz Grahame wrote:
> On Mon, 3 May 2004 23:54:58 +0100, Matthew Garrett
> <mjg59@xxxx.xxxx.xxx> wrote:
>
>> > Anyone got any linux calendaring recommendations?
>>
>> Yeah. A combination of anything that uses flat text files and cvs.
>
> Though if you're looking for compatibility with Apple iCal, Mozilla
> Calendar/Sunbird may be the thing:
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
>
> Talks iCalendar and WebDAV and FTP. May still be alpha-quality though.
I *hate* Mozilla calendar. I tried to get it to work sanely with an
iCal system, for a while, and boy does it suck.
A couple of the calendar download attempts didn't work. I was left with
an entry in the list of calendars that wouldn't do anything, but
carefully animated a little icon telling me how busy they were doing
nothing.
You couldn't delete them, though, oh no. Because they were busy. Yes,
busy, because the download hadn't worked but some stupid internal state
was wrong.
Which, incidentally, happened every time the thing was restarted. So,
even killing it off didn't help because it would try to grab them again
the next time.
I also hate the fact that the developers felt that the best way to deal
with downloading an iCal file that was fully valid, but contained no
events, was to pop up a dialog box containing the downloaded data.
Not, say, to store the calendar with no events. Not even to pop up a
useful warning like "hey, this file had no events", but to pop up the
iCal content to the user, then refuse to have anything more to do with
that iCal source.
I hate the fact that the closest they come to modifying a calendar is to
allow you to HTTP PUT the complete file after every change.
I hate the fact that there is *no* way to schedule an update of a remote
calendar at all.
I hate the fact that it gets awfully pissy if you want to remove the
local calendar, and the remote one happens to have no events, so it
displays it's stupid iCal content dialog, then refuses to do much else.
It could be described as alpha in the same way that, say, a pallet of
bricks could be described as an alpha version of a house...
Hateful software.
Daniel
--
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or,
perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged
man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
-- Henry David Thoreau
There's stuff above here
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