Need calendar and address book recommendations

ToddAndMargo ToddAndMargo at zoho.com
Sat Aug 16 03:02:06 UTC 2014


On 08/15/2014 04:33 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
> There is supposed to be better/different calendar integration with the
> Clock in Xfce 4.12
> (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM5OTA). I have
> no information on when 4.12 is going to be released other than
> articles that said it was supposed to be last year.
>
> Orage is the stock calendar app in Xfce. I use the calendar itself but
> don't have much experience adding actual events. For that sort of
> thing I usually just use Google Calendar. But Orage looks super fast,
> and that's something to recommend.
>
> Xfce doesn't seem to have a default mail client from which to draw an
> address book. I have been using Thunderbird as a mail client lately
> after a long layoff, but I probably do most of my mail in Gmail, and
> that's where my stored addresses live.
>
> You might want to look at the Osmo personal organizer
> (http://clayo.org/osmo/), which is packaged for Fedora. That looks to
> fit your needs pretty well.
> --
> Steven Rosenberg
> http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog
> http://blogs.dailynews.com/click
> stevenhrosenberg at gmail.com
> steven at stevenrosenberg.net
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:20 PM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo at zoho.com> wrote:
>>   Hi All,
>>
>> I am in the "thinking" phase of putting together an Xfce,
>> FC20 workstation for a customer. Anyone have a favorite
>> stand alone calendar and address book I could pre-load it with?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> -T

Osmo looks perfect.  THank you!




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