Email Clients and Calendars

[Brian MasinickModerator]

Thanks. Sounds like it’s worth trying out.

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[Brian MasinickModerator]

I gave it a try; like some other potentially “cool” tools, this one will require a bit of learning to figure out how to use it (unless some really *cool* person gives us the “get it going FAST” tutorial! 🙂

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[blur13Member]

haha well, I think the man pages are excellent regarding this tool, and since its highly configurable its worth reading. Whats cool to one person might not be cool to another. In no way implying that this is cool, the aliases I use are:

alias gcal="gcalcli calw --military --monday"
alias gcaladd="gcalcli add --calendar youremail@gmail.com"
alias gcalagenda="gcalcli agenda --military"

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@blur13 I think you are right.
You have certain tools that you enjoy.
I have other tools I enjoy.
Some people don’t even like using command based tools, but they enjoy graphics, photography and many other things.

I’m very grateful that there’s such a diverse set of them available.

While I don’t use everything I read about, I very much enjoy reading and learning about the many things that are available.

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blur13 wrote:

For google calendar there is gcalcli (its in the repos).

I tried gcalcli – I remember testing it some years ago, on a now defunct desktop. But currently it’s blocked in OAuth2, and the documentation (http://github.com/insanum/gcalcli ) suggests something that I tried to do a while back (I think because of Claws?) but gave up: “You currently have to use your own Calendar API token.”
It’s an overly complex way to access the calendar. It’s probably better to just keep using it in Thunderbird, on my work computer, and rely on my extremely light calendar, that I developed for FT10, on my laptop and netbook. Unfortunately, I can configure Gmail in Seamonkey, but not Google Calendar…

P.

[blur13Member]

This is true, but you set up your own Calendar API token ONCE, then its good to go. That takes maybe five minutes. A lot of useful programs that interact with an API require a personal token. I’ve set one up with the local public transport system, the national weather service, and youtube. With these I’m able to use CLI programs that can give me public transport directions, the local weather, and youtube search results directly in the terminal. On an old computer where a modern browser is really slow this allows you to benefit from these services regardless. If you’ve already gone through the process of installing antiX, learning linux, etc, taking it one step further is natural to get as much utility as possible from old systems.

But I agree with you, it is complicated the first time.

EDIT: These tokens are transferable across systems, so it really is a one time set-up then you can use the same token everywhere, on all your computers.

EDIT2: Even on modern systems the terminal is faster (and scriptable), so I end up using these programs there as well. (But I would have probably never bothered with it if I didnt have old systems I like to tinker with).

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[Brian MasinickModerator]

I don’t have any difficulty using either Yahoo or GMail products. In fact, when I left the consistency of a permanent job to take on contract jobs with different companies, I knew I wouldn’t have a company Email from which I could communicate; besides, most companies discouraged the use of their systems for anything other than business use, so as I started to communicate with more people I knew outside of work, I wanted my own personal, private accounts that I could access anywhere. Back in the late nineties, I obtained five or six free accounts at various places; Yahoo and Google were the two that I kept; after a couple of years I found it inconvenient to import their messages into Seamonkey, Netscape, or Thunderbird or some other client Email app, so I moved more or less exclusively to Web-based Email clients, and only occasionally used a client, but only if the messages could be retained on the network instead of being imported and removed from the Website of the mail being read. Haven’t done that much recently at all.

For those who do use Email, at least on our light, efficient system, Claws is one to look at; those who like command-based interfaces might find Mutt a very flexible option.

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XNEdit is a fast and classic X11 text editor, based on NEdit, with full unicode support and antialiased text rendering.

It can be found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xnedit/ and the files can be downloaded at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xnedit/files/
or the code at
http://sourceforge.net/p/xnedit/code/ci/master/tree/

I’d love to see this in our package manager, and I did
put in a request at MX-23 http://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=76379

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