Calendar Alternatives for Linux Users

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758656

by foursixnine • 6 years ago

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I use i3 (Distro = !important), but I'm struggling to find a good alternative for a calendar manager... I'm using radicale for personal stuff, but need to use outlook calendar for work, and would like to add also google calendars.

Now the important part here, is that I'm looking for something simple, that can minimize to tray. For long I was able to get away with thunderbird and lightning, but it lacks the "minimize to tray" part... I just want to click on the tray and see what's in for today for instance...

Anybody has ideas?

fader• 6 years ago

I'm in the same boat. I've tried a number of packages but they all have flaws:

* GNOME Calendar - ridiculous 100% CPU usage at all times, poor reminder handling, restricted to a few providers

* Thunderbird - poor reminder handling, out of place look/feel, clunky email integration, no minimize to tray

* Wavebox - basically an Electron wrapper around Google Calendar, incredibly expensive for what it does ($120+/year to have a calendar that minimizes to tray)

* Evolution - no longer supported

Of all that I've found, Evolution was my go-to for a long time but its age is showing and it frequently crashes on modern Ubuntu. Wavebox is a good runner up for Google Calendar but the cost is easily an order of magnitude more than the value I get from it, so that's a no go.

I'm very interested in other solutions!

foursixnine• 6 years ago

I actually thought about looking at evolution, and started to evaluate gnome calendar, but the lack of features and that I can't minimize it to tray, is a big turnoff... :/