On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 23:59 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > It seems that Solaris 10 offers at least four calendar programs. The > CDE calendar program (itself a successor to an similar program) has > provided excellent service since the early '90s but apparently CDE is > now deprecated. The other calendar programs I am aware of are > > o Evolution (included component along with email) > o Thunderbird (included component along with email) This will be a supported calendar client in the future since support to Evolution will become less than before. > o Sun Java Calendar (stand-alone) This has been EOLed. > > Of these, I have only looked at Sun Java Calendar (looks nice!) since > the idea of using a calendar associated with a mail program I don't > use is not very appealing. There is also the issue that the calendar > service should be available all the time (not just when a GUI happens > to be running) so that it can deliver event notifications via other > means (e.g. via email). > > Based on this, I have a few questions: > > 1) Is there a document somewhere which describes the > Solaris/OpenSolaris objectives for calendars? I think the answer is no. > > 2) Does Sun or OpenSolaris recommend/support one of the calendar > programs more than the others? It should be Thunderbird calendar.
Jeff > > 3) Is there a mechanism to import existing calendar definitions from > the CDE calendar server/format? > > 4) Which calendar interface has proven to be the most effective and > reliable (besides CDE Calendar)? > > Thanks, > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
