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.
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'.
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.