Orage - My Calendar Tool of Choice

September 7, 2006 · Posted in Mike's Blog 

I’ve been searching for the perfect calendar tool (for me) that would fit both my needs and taste.  I tried Google Calendar, Evolution, Mozilla Sunbird, and even the Lightning plugin to Mozilla Thunderbird but none of them would fit my wants.

What do I want?  Basically, what I want is something small, light, fast, and sets the alarm on time.  Something that will not eat my system resources too much.
I use Linux and my desktop runs on XFCE 4.4 so I decided to give Orage a try.  Orage is XFCE 4.4’s packaged calendar program.  It provides basic calendaring functionalities and it supports the iCalendar format.  It doesn’t have drag and drop capabilities or different views (day view, week view, month view, etc) but it works for me and I consider it to be an acceptable tradeoff since I want my calendar light and fast.
Here however or some weaknesses that I see.

  1. It only supports events and doesn’t support tasks - I would love it better if it supports a task list
  2. It doesn’t allow me to set a default alarm setting so I have to manually set the alarm for each event that I create.  Same goes with setting the alarm sound.
  3. It doesn’t support multiple calendars so I have to device my own ways to easily identify what kind of event just fired up.  Normally, what I do is just add a small note in the title (example: Work - do this and that, Family - watch movie with wife and kids, etc)

So far, those are the only things that I would love having.

Orage is still young and I believe that more things would come up as it gets better.



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