On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:24:34AM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 10:40:48 Chris G wrote:
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Might be worth having a look at Remind http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Remind. It has a custom scripting language and can pull calendar information from various sources. It can send reminders to various sources too. So you could probably hook it up to libnotify (using notify-send, see your $ man notify-send for details) to make it fit well into X.
I've played with Remind on and off, it's still installed I think, I'll maybe take another look.
But, to be honest, Chris, no one here *really* knows what you want except you. Try a few tools out, decide which one you like best and then go with it. That's part of the fun of this "choice" thing which free software types are often so passionate about. You could even post back your experiences to the list for general interest.
Yes, I'm not looking for 'an answer' I'm just asking for hints about what may be worth looking at.
And as a hint, I always find that a good place for searching for software tools for particular jobs is my distribution's package manager (in my case, APT on Debian).
Hmm, bit difficult to guess names that might be good applications surely. Though I do something similar using the search facilities on Freshmeat, that also allows getting a bit more help by looking at how recently a program has been updated and how popular it is. That's often (Freshmeat that is) my first point of call when I'm looking for something, it's how I found eGroupware in fact, it's one of the hits you get when you search for 'syncml'.