Calendar/PIM recommendations/evaluations?

[John Hupp]

On 1/14/2013 11:29 AM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 01/14/2013 08:51 AM, Chris Green wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:37:43AM -0500, John Hupp wrote:
>>>     I'm looking for calendar or personal information manager 
>>> recommendations
>>>     and evaluations.  Overall recommendations (preferably with any
>>>     deficiencies noted), or what other programs are nice except for 
>>> this or
>>>     that problem.
>>>
>> I have spent many fruitless hours looking for calendar/PIM and have
>> never found anything particularly satisfactory.  What I have wound up
>> with at present is as follows:-
>>
>>      I use reminderfox (a Firefox addon) for entering important 
>> repeating
>>      reminders such as tax return dates (I run a small business).  I 
>> have
>>      a small python script that uses the file produced by reminderfox to
>>      pop up a warning message in my panel (using Generic Monitor) when
>>      events due in a few days. The panel message turns red when it's 
>> only
>>      three days or less away.
>>
>>      For addresses and recording of things like dogs vaccinations,
>>      payments, etc. I have given up using anything clever and they live
>>      in text files.  The command line utilites (like grep and awk) 
>> are so
>>      good that finding things is very easy.  My addresses for example 
>> are
>>      in text file(s) with 6 lines per entry, I have a bash script to 
>> find
>>      entries:-
>>
>>          #!/bin/bash
>>          #
>>          #
>>          # Address finding and editing program
>>          #
>>          if [ $1 == '-e' ]
>>          then
>>              if [ ${#2} == 1 ]
>>              then
>>                  vi ~/.addresses/$2
>>              else
>>                  vi -c/$2 `grep -l $2 ~/.addresses/*`
>>              fi
>>          else
>>              echo
>>              grep -h -A 5 $1 ~/.addresses/*
>>          fi
>>
>>      So to find an address I just enter 'a Fred' at the command line and
>>      any/all addresses for people with Fred in their name are listed.
>>
>>
>>>     I'm vaguely aware that there has been some controversy regarding 
>>> the
>>>     Lubuntu email programs, so the same input is welcome on that topic.
>> I use mutt (command line junkie that I am).
>>
> Chris:
>
> I recently switched from using Evolution mail, to Thunderbird mail.
>
> That is working fine, so far, and I like it better.  The downside is I 
> have no way to migrate my former e-mails (which go back many years, 
> for the important ones).  I am living with that, because I can just 
> fire-up Evolution mail, and access all of the old e-mails.
>
> One thing Thunderbird didn't seem to have (that Evolution had), is the 
> calendar functionality.
>
> I originally used Osmo which seems to be installed by default. It 
> seemed to work, though its functionality seemed minimal, to me.
>
> I then discovered that Thunderbird mail has calendar functionality, 
> which is available as a plug-in.
>
> I was hesitant to use it, since I had seen some bad reviews about it, 
> but I tried it anyway, and have yet to have any problems with it.
>
> Be aware that my experience is using Lubuntu 12.10.

On Windows, Thunderbird has several documented font bugs in the HTML 
composer which frequently results in sent mail that has a mixture of 
font sizes (often switching at the point where the writer backspaced, 
corrected something, moved to another place in the body to insert 
something, or pasted in some text).  Yet everything looks fine to the 
writer during composition.  It is only when a reply is received that one 
becomes aware that the sender received mail that looks like it was 
written by a child.  Maddening, embarrassing and unprofessional.

Are these bugs not manifested on Linux/Lubuntu?

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