Re: calendar supporting vcalendar?
"Matthew Weier O'Phinney" <matthew@weierophinney.net> writes:
> -- Andreas Goesele <Goesele@hfph.mwn.de> wrote
> (on Monday, 14 October 2002, 12:28 AM +0200):
> > to synchronize with my handheld I need my calendar in the vcalendar
> > format. So far I used korganizer, but since some time it doesn't use
> > internally the vcalendar format any more and only allows to export in
> > the vcalendar format, which is inconvenient. To make things worse, not
> > even the alarms work and there seems to be no progress in correcting
> > this bug.
> >
> > So, I would like to change to another calendar application which
> > supports vcalendar files and has working alarms. I tried evolution,
> > but it actually seems to use the ical format too and did a very bad
> > job importing my vcalendar file. (All returning events were missing.)
> > Aethera on the other hand seems to relay on korganizer anyway.
>
> I have had ongoing problems with this very issue. You can try
> gnome-calendar, as it uses vCal formats -- but I've had problems with
> its alarms, and it isn't easy to have multiple calendars.
I have tried gnomecal. But it changed all RRULEs with an end date into
RRULEs with a number of occurrences. The algorithm used gives quite
often wrong results - and my handheld (not a palm) can't use the
occurrence format :-(
> Since you're sinking with your handheld, I'd highly suggest jpilot --
> it works almost exactly like the Palm Desktop for Windows, but better.
> It has a number of plugins for different Palm applications, and can do
> alarms.
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