On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, James Andrewartha wrote: > > The Thunderbird calendar support is provided by an extension, Lightning, > which itself is a repackaging of the standalone Sunbird calendar > program. Evolution has hooks into the rest of GNOME, so your > appointments show up in the calendar available from the date/time > applet. It also runs an evolution-alarm-notify process that remains > running after you close Evolution, however it's not there at the start > of a login session.
I have downloaded the standalone Sunbird 0.7 calendar program and it seems to be suitable for my current needs except that it fails to support the AM/PM 12-hour time format which is commonly used in (and peculiar to) the USA. I also noticed a bizarre bug in that new appointments were entered two hours off when I accidentally had the calendar time zone set to a time zone one hour off. > I can't answer your questions, as they're all to do with Sun or CDE, but > I will note the move these days is towards using CalDAV servers for > calendaring. The server can then be responsible for sending out email Thanks for the advice. I hope that Sun will offer a stand-alone program (similar to Sunbird) along with some transition utility to convert existing calendars from the CDE server format to a light-weight CalDAV server that they also provide. Naturally, this should all be nicely integrated into the Solaris desktop. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
