On 01/14/2013 10:14 AM, John Hupp wrote:
On 1/14/2013 11:29 AM, Aere Greenway wrote:
On 01/14/2013 08:51 AM, Chris Green wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:37:43AM -0500, John Hupp wrote:
I'm looking for calendar or personal information manager
recommendations
and evaluations. Overall recommendations (preferably with any
deficiencies noted), or what other programs are nice except for
this or
that problem.
I have spent many fruitless hours looking for calendar/PIM and have
never found anything particularly satisfactory. What I have wound up
with at present is as follows:-
I use reminderfox (a Firefox addon) for entering important
repeating
reminders such as tax return dates (I run a small business). I
have
a small python script that uses the file produced by
reminderfox to
pop up a warning message in my panel (using Generic Monitor) when
events due in a few days. The panel message turns red when it's
only
three days or less away.
For addresses and recording of things like dogs vaccinations,
payments, etc. I have given up using anything clever and they live
in text files. The command line utilites (like grep and awk)
are so
good that finding things is very easy. My addresses for
example are
in text file(s) with 6 lines per entry, I have a bash script to
find
entries:-
#!/bin/bash
#
#
# Address finding and editing program
#
if [ $1 == '-e' ]
then
if [ ${#2} == 1 ]
then
vi ~/.addresses/$2
else
vi -c/$2 `grep -l $2 ~/.addresses/*`
fi
else
echo
grep -h -A 5 $1 ~/.addresses/*
fi
So to find an address I just enter 'a Fred' at the command line
and
any/all addresses for people with Fred in their name are listed.
I'm vaguely aware that there has been some controversy
regarding the
Lubuntu email programs, so the same input is welcome on that
topic.
I use mutt (command line junkie that I am).
Chris:
I recently switched from using Evolution mail, to Thunderbird mail.
That is working fine, so far, and I like it better. The downside is
I have no way to migrate my former e-mails (which go back many years,
for the important ones). I am living with that, because I can just
fire-up Evolution mail, and access all of the old e-mails.
One thing Thunderbird didn't seem to have (that Evolution had), is
the calendar functionality.
I originally used Osmo which seems to be installed by default. It
seemed to work, though its functionality seemed minimal, to me.
I then discovered that Thunderbird mail has calendar functionality,
which is available as a plug-in.
I was hesitant to use it, since I had seen some bad reviews about it,
but I tried it anyway, and have yet to have any problems with it.
Be aware that my experience is using Lubuntu 12.10.
On Windows, Thunderbird has several documented font bugs in the HTML
composer which frequently results in sent mail that has a mixture of
font sizes (often switching at the point where the writer backspaced,
corrected something, moved to another place in the body to insert
something, or pasted in some text). Yet everything looks fine to the
writer during composition. It is only when a reply is received that
one becomes aware that the sender received mail that looks like it was
written by a child. Maddening, embarrassing and unprofessional.
Are these bugs not manifested on Linux/Lubuntu?
John:
I have an e-mail I sent to the Rosegarden Developers e-mail list (using
Thunderbird mail), as part of reporting a problem, that e-mail was
echoed back to me (as a member of the list), so I could see it.
In that e-mail, I marked the computer output in at least two different
places by changing the font to Courier New.
What came back to me (because I am a member of the e-mail list) looks
the same as what I saw when I edited it.
Perhaps the problem reported in Windows does not occur in Linux/Lubuntu.
If you have a description of a test I could do, I would be glad to test it.
--
Sincerely,
Aere
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