On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:36:20PM +0100, Dan Hatton wrote:
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Chris G wrote:
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.
This is command-line, so I'm not sure if it'll meet your definition of `applet or dock app', but I'll say it anyway. I use http://sourceforge.net/projects/birthday/. I have it run from my .cshrc, so it appears every time I open a terminal window, and is therefore pretty much `permanently on my desktop'.
It could well be what I want, I'd sort of half considered something run in a terminal window.
It's very easy to run a (say) 10 line terminal window automatically at start-up and have it 'sticky' (i.e. visible in all desktops). All that's needed then is to run birthday automatically at intervals in the window and I have what I want.
Thanks for the pointer.