Applet or dock app for birthdays/anniversaries wanted
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. -- Chris Green
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'. -- HTH, Dan Hatton <http://www.bib.hatton.btinternet.co.uk/dan/>
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. -- Chris Green
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