From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Diary Usage Poll Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:11:17 -0500 (EST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87lm4bas08.fsf@at_ipipan.waw.pl> <874rauo0l5.fsf@wesley.springies.com> Reply-To: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036685114 7007 80.91.224.249 (7 Nov 2002 16:05:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:05:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 189p9X-0001oN-00 for ; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 17:05:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 189oUm-0005bz-00; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 10:23:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 189oJc-0001sj-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 10:11:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 189oJY-0001rN-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 10:11:27 -0500 Original-Received: from adsl-65-43-209-82.dsl.bcvloh.ameritech.net ([65.43.209.82] helo=heidegger.mousecar.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 189oJY-0001rJ-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 10:11:24 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (ken@localhost) by heidegger.mousecar.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA7FBK604489; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:11:21 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: heidegger.mousecar.net: ken owned process doing -bs Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-X-Sender: Original-To: Alan Shutko In-Reply-To: <874rauo0l5.fsf@wesley.springies.com> Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3371 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3371 Spake Alan Shutko at 21:22 (UTC-0000) on Wed, 6 Nov 2002: = ken writes: = = > I switched because I believe gnomecal will be the dominant = > calendaring app in Linux, and especially as Linux becomes more = > popular on the desktop. = = Gnomecal was already orphaned once, and may be again in the future. = Last I fiddled in the code, it was pretty buggy in a number of = areas. Why do you think that it (and not Evolution, or the KDE = calendar, or plan, or remind, or something else) will be the dominant = calendaring app in Linux? And why does it matter? Seems I touched a nerve. I haven't had problems with it and can't say why you did. I was just responding to a question about emacs diary, hoping to get the point across that another gnu app has a lot of nice features and is simple to use, a consideration for people who want to do calendaring without having to learn to program in elisp, also a consideration for those of us interested in broadening the use of open source software. That's why it matters. It would be a little OT and inconsiderate to the list to provide you a review of the apps you requested... or to take up what seems to me to be an invitation to a pointless dispute. You disagree with me. This is duly noted. Let's leave it there. = = > This gnomecal also easily handles repeating events, events which = > repeat only a finite number of times, exceptions to either of these = > kinds of repeating events, and a variety of others, all by pointing = > and clicking... = = What it doesn't handle are floating holidays or things like the DST = switch. That's one reason I don't use it anymore. Rereading my original post, you'll note that I said that gnomecal "needs more development". This is one notable area where it is needed. And there are others. Further discussion may be pursued off the list. Regards, ken -- AMD crashes? See http://cleveland.lug.net/~ken/amd-problem/.