Calendar application with simple events list (not days, weeks or months) - any suggestions?

[Chris G]

On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 07:43:20PM +0000, sktsee wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:02:55 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 11:03:55AM -0800, NoOp wrote:
> >> On 01/08/2010 08:47 AM, Chris G wrote:
> >> > I'm looking for a calendar/task application that's capable of showing
> >> > upcoming events as a simple list as opposed to showing a day, week or
> >> > month view.
> >> > 
> >> > I.e. I want to see, say, the next ten events regardless of how far
> >> > apart they are.  If they're all tomorrow then I will just see ten
> >> > events tomorrow, if they're all months ahead I will *still* see the
> >> > next ten events spaced over several months.
> >> > 
> >> > Can anyone suggest an application that can show things this way?
> >> > Apart from the viewing requirement I just want a fairly simple
> >> > task/calendar application.
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> Perhaps lightning (if you are using Thunderbird or SeaMonkey), or
> >> sunbird if you want a stand alone.
> >> 
> >> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
> >> 
> >> The task window will show task for: Today, Tomorrow, Soon.
> >> 
> >> both are also in the repositories, but I install directly from
> >> mozilla.org. In the repo's, lightning is 'lightning-extension'.
> >> 
> > I've been playing with Sunbird, it's sort of OK but not ideal.
> > 
> >     I would like to be able to get rid of the calendar view completely.
> > 
> >     I'd like to see dates on the task list, i.e. without having to open
> >     the tasks.
> 
> Gtg (Getting Things Gnome) might meet your requirements. Here's its 
> homepage: http://gtg.fritalk.com 
> 
> The developer also lists other task managers for Gnome and links to their 
> project pages on his site, so you can check out some of those as well. 
> 
Thanks, some useful pointers there.

-- 
Chris Green