I'm looking for a minimalist application that will display a list of upcoming events (e.g. birthdays, anniversaries, todos) in as compact a fashion as possible so I can park it permanently on my dekstop.
I have found a couple of rather old applications that do something like what I'm after but one (wmbday) is a dock application (and I don't have a dock). The other (cstermin) is OK'ish but it's written in perl which is not my preferred language if I want to modify it.
Here are some screenshots of the two of them to show the sort of thing I'm after:-
http://buzzinhornetz.ath.cx/wmbday/screenshot.php
http://cstermin.sourceforge.net/
Can anyone suggest anything more recent which can do the above sort of thing and/or some sort of development framework or libraries that would make writing such a thing easy?
Ideally I'd like the data to be in iCalendar format but that's not vital really.