[Gllug] linux calendar/schedule/todo list software?

[Simon Stewart]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 04:33:55PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> On Tue 03 Sep, Simon Stewart bloviated thus:
> 
> > I've got strange dreams of getting an email from a friend or
> > colleague, with a date in it, so I hightlight the date, or even just
> > right click on the email, and select "Add new calendar item..." from a
> > context sensitive menu. This opens up a popup to let me add this one
> > item to my calendar without opening the rest of the program.
> 
> Erm, isn't that vcal?  You could just bind whatever you've got
> handling vcal attachments to a key in mutt to accept the invitation,
> perhaps?

It was an example. Stop thinking literally for a minute, and start
thinking of how software can make things a little easier. 

Think of a spell checker for use anywhere (such as when writing my
calendar entry ;) or perhaps I don't like the normal editor that ships
with my distro, and want to use another where editors crop up. What if
I want to do this, but keep the same spell checker? Wouldn't it be
great if I "ispell" was programmed to use the spell checker service of
my choice (perhaps a commercial one with sophisticated word derivation
rules, rather than the simlper ones available in the traditional
command line tool)? What about if I want to use a different editor
depending on the contents of the file? Perhaps a specialised XML
editor where that's appropriate, or something like "IDEA" for working
on my Java source, and emacs or vi for just batting out text. What
about if I choose to edit an image file? Rather than displaying a
screenfull of goobledegook, my image editor is embedded for me,
sensibly into the app I'm using, so I can see it in context?

Think of editing a document made of lots of elements like this chained
together. Rather than cutting and pasting, just edit the element in
place using the appropriate editor (maybe selected using a right
click?) And that's not even scratching the surface....

KDE goes someway along these lines, but not far enough, IMHO. It's
still a collection of monolithic programs that occasionally lean on
other existing components to implement some of the functionality.

I'll just go back to dreaming of my software utopia. :))

Cheers,

Simon

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 Fortunately that was our plan from the start"
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