On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 04:06:04PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
On 23 Jan 15:31, Chris G wrote:
Well, having just about sorted out my events/appointments *recording* I now want a 'screen friendly' way of displaying them that will alert me to upcoming appointments without taking up too much screen real estate.
My appointments/events will be in an iCalendar file (or at an iCal server) so most programs can see them, however I can't find anything to show them to me as a list of events. So far I have looked at:-
Sunbird - no list mode at all, only week, month, next n weeks, not to mention that you can't have just the one pane showing. Evolution - does have a list view but you can't close down all the other panes so only the list is showing. Orage - no list view Osmo - no list viewI guess it's not all that difficult to DIY, I already have a little python utility for showing upcoming reminders in the xfce panel. I could adapt this to do something similar in a small terminal window but if there's something out there that can do what I want already I might as well use it.
I just want a utility to display the next x events (maybe limited to the next y days) in a simple list - date/event/description - so I can run it as a sticky window visible on all my worktops.
What are you using for the calendar software... and does it not provide an RSS feed... so you could just get something simple that reads the RSS feed and displays the next x items.
I'm using Events Calendar 3 in WordPress, I'll take a look to see if that can generate an RSS feed. I've not dipped into the world of RSS before so it's not something that had occurred to me. Can you get simple desktop RSS display programs as opposed to ones that run in a browser?