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 :(

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.

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.