Looking for a Stand-Alone Calendar App?

Chadduss asks: "I don't know about all of you but I've been looking for a good calendar application for quite sometime. I have used the Mozilla calendar extension for Thunderbird but I had problems with it several times. Enter Mozilla Sunbird. That's right, another bird! It's still only version 0.1.1 but I for one hope to see it come out on top."

Comments

One bird too late

[__aavhli5779]

I was long awaiting the unveiling of another 'bird' app to complete the collection, but then Mozilla threw consistency to the winds with the renaming of Firebird... now I don't know what to think :(

On the upside, Sunbird looks like a pretty nice app, but it comes with so much baggage (basically a whole NSPR/Gecko runtime). 11 megs for a calendar app? If Mozilla is going to continue spinning off parts of their suite as individual apps, they should at least consider taking the otherwise redundant parts and keeping them in one shared directory. Of course, with hard drive space and memory being available for so cheap these days, who cares except for the pycklers like myself :(

No, I didn't RTFA

[Rick the Red]

Let's be honest here. We're all looking for an "open" Outlook replacement. I'd be interested in Sunbird on one condition -- it has to be truely open. If it only works (or only works well) with other Mozilla apps, then it may be open source but it's not really open. If it works with OOo, Pine, the KDE suite, etc. then I'm interested.

The dream is to make my own Outlook replacement out of open software building blocks, and a calendar block is much needed. But so far the other blocks only work well with their own kind. It's not Open unless all the building blocks are interoperable and interchangeable. Until then, Outlook/Office wins.

Re:Stealing from Pontiac again...

[Rick the Red]

Oddly enough, I use Outlook for both, but not on the same machine. I use Outlook for email on my laptop, and I use Pocket Outlook for calendaring on my Pocket PC. I don't do calendaring on my laptop, and I don't do email on my PDA. I can hear /.readers gasping in horror, but in PDA bang/buck the Pocket PC wins, so whatever runs on my desktop has to work with a Pocket PC. So far that's Outlook, but I'm open to a replacement.

I really don't use Outlook's calendar (Schedule Plus) on my laptop except as a backup for my PDA. Frankly, it's annoying that I can't turn off the alarms on my laptop without turning them off on the PDA as well, so there's an opening for an open-source solution to do Microsoft one better.

I can't switch from the Windows XP that came on my laptop until everything I do can be done with open software. This isn't my game PC, so it doesn't have to run Windows games, but among other things it does have to run Outlook so I can sync my PDA's calendar.

By the way, there are more email clients than just Thunderbird. Sunbird better work with them, too.

Still in early development phase...PDA

[Anonymous Coward]

Well the author did say a stand alone calendar app. So why not get a PDA?

Or I guess he could write his own. There's certainly enough tech out there.

sync

[raffe]

Will you be able to "sync" it if you have several different computers?

Didnt see anytinh about it on the site.

Re:sync

[quake74]

I use Mozilla Calendar (and I suppose Sunbird behaves the same) and you can. You could use the same file on some shared folder, or use the same file on some FTP repository, or I think you could even use Webdav do share calendars. For example you can subscribe to all the calendars at ICalShare.

Pro-bloat

[quake74]

Actually, I browse the web, I use email and I need a calendar application. The Mozilla suite really fits my needs well, expecially because there are windows and linux versions which behave pretty much in the same way.

I'd rather see more time spent on improving the applications, rather than trying to figure out how to make them independent.

Just my 2c.

Outlook replacement

[DrJAKing]

Outlook does a lot of things well - Contacts, Mail, Calendar, ToDo, Notes - and it integrates well with the desktop. It's a bit of a killer app for MS Office because it puts together most people's PIM needs in one place. The Mozilla approach of Browser + Mail might work for some but it makes no sense at all to me. I want an Outlook replacement, one which uses open file formats and isn't bloated. One that runs nice and quickly. It seems like a lot of people do. Thunderbird developers, please take note.

PIM users

[rueger]

Just as Mozilla is the odds on replacemnt for Internet Explorer, and generally is embraced by any IE user who tries it, it would be wonderful to have a replacemnt for the godawful Palm software.

I for one would love to have a calendar/contact list that had all of the features that Palm Desktop lacks. If Sunbird could sync with Palms, and even better, between my laptop and desktop, it could build a nice sized user group.

Full PIM needed

[n-baxley]

In addition to a calendar, a contact manager that can interface with both the calendar and the email app is desperatly needed on Windows. I'm trying to convice people in the office to move away from MS and the big pitfall is a PIM to replace Outlook. Who is working on something like this? Anyone?

One bird too late-D-BUS

[Anonymous Coward]

D-BUS could make this possible.

Re:Thunderbird + Sunbird

[denis-The-menace]

Finally!
Someone who has realized that to have a meeting you have to TELL people about!
Once you schedule a meeting in a Calandaring app, you need to send emails to the participants.
The Address book in Thunderbird/Mozilla is not that useful compared to Outlook/Maximizer and other organizers. If I could have a Moz-based Organizer I could finally kill the VMware box that runs Outlook.