Calendar and appontments without Evolution

[Michael Knepher]

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 12:26 -0400, Scott Abbey wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 June 2007 09:18:46 Toby Kelsey wrote:
> > I wanted to add an appointment to the pop-up calendar on Feisty and was
> > surprised when Evolution appeared and started asking me questions about my
> > email accounts.  I am happy using Thunderbird and don't want another
> > application confusing/disrupting/duplicating my email workflow.
> >
> > Is there a way of using the calendar without Evolution email interfering? 
> > If that's not possible, what alternative calendar/appointment/todo program
> > do people recommend?
> 
> You could try Dates[1]. It uses Evolution Data Server (the same thing that 
> provides the calendar for Gnome), but just provides a calendar, without all 
> the PIM cruft. It may provide the functionality you want:

It's nice and lightweight for entering appointments, though the UI is a
bit restrictive atm, being designed primarily as a portable app.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure that there's currently any way to hack the
calendar applet to have it open dates instead of evolution when
double-clicking on a date.
> 
>   sudo apt-get install dates
> 
> There's also Contacts[2], which does the same thing for the EDS address book:
> 
>   sudo apt-get install contacts
> 
> Regards,
> Scott
> 
> 1. http://pimlico-project.org/dates.html
> 2. http://pimlico-project.org/contacts.html