Alex Mandel wrote: > Tony Cratz wrote: >> Rick Moen wrote: >>> Quoting Scott Miller (scottli...@gmail.com): >>> >>>> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/download.html >>>> >>>> Yeah looks like sunbird is not in development anymore. Their site says >>>> >>>> "This is the last public Sunbird release by the Calendar Project. >>>> We recommend upgrading to Thunderbird 3 and Lightning 1.0 beta1." >>> I should note that Lightning basically _is_ Sunbird. >>> >>> Sunbird was a bunch of XUL interpreted code for iCAL / CalDAV / DAViCal >>> functionality atop the Mozilla portable runtime. Lightning is >>> that same XUL code refactored to run on the Mozilla portable runtime >>> inside Thunderbird 3.0.x or SeaMonkey 2.0. >>> >>> It might be possible to run it on Firefox's copy of the Mozilla portable >>> runtime, though that's not addressed in the Web site's docs. Seems >>> likely that there's been enough rewriting to accomodate Thunderbird 3 as >>> host that that might be nontrivial. >> >> While I understand that Lightning is really Sunbird it is >> not a standalone client. It requires having Thunderbird up >> and running. >> >> I really want a true standalone client which does not require >> any Internet connection, this is where Sunbird was a major >> win over Lightning. >> >> >> Tony > > Thunderbird only requires an internet connection if you configure email > accounts or online/synced calendars. It is capable of running in offline > mode(You can even set the default to offline), and I do this all the > time with my laptop. > > Just a correction of facts, I realize this doesn't solve your issue of > wanting a good standalone offline calendar. A quick look through the > package manager shows a few options but most seem to be very web dependent. > > Chandler and KOrganizer came up as some options to explore based on a > web search. > > Alex
A couple more: Rainlendar http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php Orage http://www.kolumbus.fi/~w408237/orage/ Enjoy, Alex _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech