Calendar/PIM recommendations/evaluations?
John Hupp
lubuntu at prpcompany.com
Tue Jan 15 15:25:37 UTC 2013
On 1/14/2013 8:45 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 01/14/2013 10:14 AM, John Hupp wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
> John:
>
> I have an e-mail I sent to the Rosegarden Developers e-mail list
> (using Thunderbird mail), as part of reporting a problem, that e-mail
> was echoed back to me (as a member of the list), so I could see it.
>
> In that e-mail, I marked the computer output in at least two different
> places by changing the font to Courier New.
>
> What came back to me (because I am a member of the e-mail list) looks
> the same as what I saw when I edited it.
>
> Perhaps the problem reported in Windows does not occur in Linux/Lubuntu.
>
> If you have a description of a test I could do, I would be glad to
> test it.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Aere
I have not gone through this and hand-picked a best-described,
easiest-to-reproduce bug, but here are all the Thunderbird font-related
bugs that I have voted up:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756984 Changing location in
editor doesn't preserve the font when returning to end of text/line
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=812638 TB is
inserting/adding loads of redundant/incorrect/random <font size="x">
tags in the middle of corrected words (partially erased with backspace
or DEL, then retyped) with certain valid font size attributes in HTML
message source; causes spelling issues
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203810 Font style in
prepopulated text in a reply "xyz wrote:" (attribution line) doesn't
follow settings; causes replied text to not be default in cases
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606668 Font keeps changing
back to Arial if you change the default font.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782215 Font size change
causes inconsistent size changes to occur
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798868 Font and size change
while typing a message
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799893 Default HTML message
font is not preserved in list and after using a list
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=802190 Improve
malfunctioning Composer
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=823523 Superfluous font
tags in HTML mail cause spaces to disappear
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