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 On The Desktop
 
    Calendaring: fables and truths.
    
                                                                [ical.jpg]
    The ical program is the grand daddy of all calendaring tools for Linux
                                                                     users
                                                                          
    Desktop users come with three kinds of scheduling needs: those with
    personal schedules to track, those with corporate schedules to share,
    and those with mobile schedules to, well, keep mobile. On Linux, all
    three are supported. The question isn't, as many suggest, when the
    tools will arrive. The question is what tools are you interested in
    running.
    
    On the personal level, a desktop user who has no need of sharing of
    calendar information has a number of options. The grand daddy of all
    open source calendaring tools is probably ical, a Tcl based
    application. The interface is reasonably easy to use, if not quite as
    slick as any GTK+ and Qt based tools. Still, it's very stable, simple
    to use, and full featured enough to be able to keep tabs of the day to
    day activities for years on end. It will import other users ical
    calendars so you can, at a primitive level, share calendars. It also
    offers simple alarms and event repeat features.
    
    The drawback is that ical isn't really supported anymore. In fact,
    you're lucky if you can find a web site that even carries it.
    Fortunately, most modern Linux desktop distributions include it with
    their base packages so you shouldn't have to go looking for it.
    
    [43]KOrganizer, on the other hand, is very actively supported, if just
    a little crude in allowing users to migrate from ical. The KDE based
    KOrganizer offers much stronger feature set including search and email
    options. It can import ical data (almost) and color code events. It
    also offers the ability to attach an attendee list to events,
    something ical does not, as well as specify status levels for
    individual events.
    
    A minor bug in KOrganizer 2.1 prevented seamless import of our ical
    data. Fortunately a primitive ical-to-vcal script is provided that
    will convert old ical calendars to vcal format. This script had to be
    run manually but it worked. Since the script is primitive, you have to
    read it to know that you are required to provide the input and output
    filenames and you must name the output file with a ".vcs" extension or
    KOrganizer will crash when it merges in (as opposed to imports) the
    new calendar. Once you get past all this, though, the program works
    quite well. The display is fairly clean and the individual entries are
    easy to find. There is potential here, but room for improvement as
    well. Compared to the primitive ical you'll find a richer feature set,
    partially as a benefit of being part of the overall KDE environment.
    
    For groupware support we needed to talk to an expert in the field of
    calendaring - [44]David Sifry, ex-Linuxcare honcho and now a leader in
    the open source calendaring arena. David currently manages two
    projects, [45]GCTP, the Group Calendaring Transport Protocol that
    describes a non-proprietary method of scheduling multiple calendars,
    and [46]OpenFlock, a reference implementation of a GCTP server. Sifry
    says that users really have multiple options. "First," he says, "you
    have to start by understanding that there is an ical program and an
    ical standard. The [47]iCalendar standard is an extensive and complex
    protocol from the IETF that specifies the format for calendar data and
    its handling." While ical, the program, uses its own format for saved
    calendars, most modern calendar programs use the iCalendar standard
    format and/or the [48]vCal and [49]VCard formats. [Ed. Note: if you're
    really interested in the technical aspect of this arena, you can check
    out the [50]IETF's Calendaring and Scheduling Working Group.]
    
    "The one open source application that is making the most splash here
    is Evolution," adds Sifry. "It's quite good for individual
    calendaring." Sifry says that [51]Evolution is completely iCalendar
    based. "It works a lot like Outlook in features, but not in security.
    You can, for example, click and drag along the calendar to specify a
    set of dates you want to look at. It shows schedules in a sort of Gant
    chart format so you can look at your day in blocks of time," much like
    KOrganizer does. According to Sifry, Evolution does include
    rudimentary group calendaring using a sort of peer-to-peer system.
    Users send email with encapsulated appointments to other users to
    inform them of the schedule, says Sifry, "but there is no way of
    querying a centralized server or database to know if the recipient has
    read it or they happen to be on vacation or whatever." You can also
    export calendars as ical objects. "It's a reasonable solution for now
    if everyone is using Evolution in a small office."
    
    Another option which may be even more mature comes in [52]StarOffice.
    Says Sifry, "StarOffice also has a calendaring tool that can sync to
    the Pilot. The problem here is that the calendaring feature is going
    away in OpenOffice, much to the chagrin of users." OpenOffice is the
    next planned release for StarOffice, with the open source version
    going under the name OpenOffice and Sun's version going under the name
    StarOffice 6. Sifry also noted that the commercial versions of
    StarOffice also have a calendaring server so you could run a small
    office using just StarOffice. He points out that in StarOffice 5 the
    server was a little buggy and since it was a licensed tool Sun was
    wary of carrying it over into the new release. Currently they seem to
    be looking for alternatives for calendaring in version 6 and for
    OpenOffice.
    
    Sifry says that calendaring isn't a new problem, that it has been
    around for years. "A number of proprietary solutions have come into
    existence but are based on their own networks. These can run on Linux,
    like Domino. You could run a Lotus Notes solution on Linux using a
    [53]Domino server and [54]Notes clients on any desktop [Windows or
    Mac, that is]." But Sifry was turned off on proprietary clients for
    some time, having waited impatiently for Linux clients to become
    available (no Notes client is yet available for Linux, much to our
    surprise).
    
    "Outlook works great under VMWare," says Sifry, who actually uses it
    that way currently. "As long as you're not using Outlook for email,"
    he says, laughing, "it's a pretty good program." He also recommends
    GroupWise from Novell, if you're planning on looking for VMWare based
    solutions. "Win4Lin can also run Outlook, at least in the Express
    version."
    
    Mobility is less of a problem for Linux users. [55]JPilot, for
    example, actually has a nice calendar of its own embedded in it. Also,
    if you have a Palm Pilot, you can use [56]www.palm.com, which offers
    Web based calendaring. This means that you can log into your palm.com
    account from your Linux box, make changes and the next time you log in
    to your wireless Palm the changes will show up. But this isn't really
    Linux specific, it just happens to be easily accessible from Linux.
    And, of course, both KDE ([57]kpilot) and GNOME ([58]gnome-pilot)
    offer Pilot integration with some calendaring.
    
    One last project Sifry wanted to plug was [59]ReefKnot. It's a
    groupware calendaring server, a web based platform for doing
    calendaring. It's being put together by a group that includes Dan
    York, former LPI and e-Smith wonderboy. The project is Perl based and
    includes the Net::Ical module. It allows you to parse and interpret
    ical objects. Sifry says the project has a strong development group
    behind it and is worth keeping an eye on.
    
    Dell and the Desktop. Dell announced this week their intention to
    [60]stop shipping Desktop Linux preinstalled on their computer
    systems. According to Dell representatives, the demand isn't there.
    
      Customers who want to buy 50 or more PCs can have them installed
      with Linux if they go through a custom ordering process that is
      separate from Dell's online store and catalogs, [company
      spokesperson Sarah] Lavender says.
      
    But not everyone at Dell plays by the same rules. The Australian
    branch of the Austin, Texas based company sees things a little
    differently, and it doesn't plan to [61]drop the Linux desktop from
    its set of preinstalled systems.
    
      The Australian office, however, has decided to hold off on plans to
      remove Linux as an option in the pre-installation stage. Rob Small,
      corporate communications director at Dell Computer Australia,
      explained the US move was merely a result of customer demand.
      
    Dell will continue to preinstall Linux server systems both in the U.S.
    and Australia. The company's move to drop U.S. desktop
    preinstallations comes, not surprisingly, as Microsoft tries to rush
    its XP shipments out the door ahead of further legal anti-trust
    action. One wonders if Michael or Bill is actually in charge down in
    Austin...
    
 Desktop Environments
 
    KDE 2.2 Tagged, KDE 3.0 Branch Opened. [62]KDE 2.2 has been tagged in
    the source tree in preparation for it's final release on August 13th.
    
    GNOME release and summaries. The [63]first beta of GNOME 1.4.1 was
    released this week. For those curious individuals with too little time
    to investigate on their own, a [64]list of changes from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1
    has been posted.
    
    Along with the new beta, two new summaries from the GNOME project were
    posted as well. The [65]GNOME Summary for August 4 covers the upcoming
    1.0 releases of AbiWord, Evolution, and Mozilla; the 2.0 library
    freeze, the GNOME Usability Project, and more.
    
    A somewhat delayed [66]GNOME summary for July 22 - July 28 was also
    released this past week. It covers the API freeze, Martin stepping
    down as Release Co-ordinator and some interesting development
    applications.
    
 Office Applications
 
    AbiWord Weekly News. The 55th edition of [67]AbiWord Weekly News is
    now online. Updates to the application this past week included
    language updates, updates for both BeOS and Mac, and fixes for
    printing images.
    
    On a related note, it looks like we may have missed [68]issue 54 last
    week. Check it out if you missed it too.
    
    Sun's rising star enters Microsoft space (computing). [69]Sun's
    StarOffice is replacing Microsoft's products at the Central Scotland
    Police facilities, as well as many other high profile locations. "Ian
    Meakin, product marketing manger at Sun, said the company firmly
    believes software should be free, which is why it offers users the
    opportunity to download Star Office free of charge. 'Why have the blue
    screen of death when you can have Linux on your laptop?' he said."
    
    Evolution 1.0 Beta 2 is out!. A new release of the [70]Evolution 1.0
    Beta cycle hit the ether earlier this week. As usual, this one carries
    numerous bug fixes, as all Beta releases tend to.
    
    Additionally, Ettore Perazzoli posted a notice titled [71]Evolution
    Wants You! to the GNOME Hackers mailing list. The Outlook-killer
    project is aiming for a 1.0 release at the beginning of October but it
    needs a much wider range of testers if it is to get there on time. Of
    course, if you can fix bugs too, well that would be even better...
    
 Desktop Applications
 
    AOL releases new Netscape beta (Yahoo/C|Net). AOL has released a
    [72]preview release of Netscape 6.1. The new version is said to
    include mostly configuration option updates with little core code
    changes though its stability is [73]considered to be significantly
    improved over 6.0 - there must have been just a few core changes,
    we're guessing. Netscape 4.x users can grab this version directly from
    [74]Netscape's download area.
    
    Sondra, The Next Level in MP3 Appreciation?. KDE Dot News reports on a
    new MP3 front end, called, [75]Sondra, which allows you to rank songs
    in your playlists. "Sondra has a KDE-interface, a command-line
    interface, and the backend is implemented as a library, so anyone can
    use it with maximum flexibility."
    
 And in other news...
 
    Matthias Ettrich On Universal Components. A RealVideo version of
    Matthias Ettrich's talk on [76]Universal Components at LinuxForum is
    now available online.
    
    The Chopping Block for August. The WorldForge Project has released
    [77]The Chopping Block for August, its monthly newsletter that, they
    say, will become truly monthly again. Articles this month include a
    discussion of artificial intelligence in games, a report from LinuxTag
    2001, reports from several WorldForge subprojects, and more.
    
    cal3d 0.6. Developed originally for WorldForge and released early this
    week, [78]cal3D is a 3D character animation engine. Features in this
    release include progressive meshes for LOD, unified exporter
    framework, flexible material handling, user-data fields and a much
    nicer rendering API.
    
    Section Editor: [79]Michael J. Hammel
    August 9, 2001
    
    Note: An asterisk (*) denotes a proprietary product, (w) denotes WINE
    based tools.
    Desktop Environments
    [80]GNOME
    [81]GNUstep
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    [83]XFce
    Window Managers (WM's)
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    [85]Enlightenment
    [86]FVMW2
    [87]IceWM
    [88]Sawfish
    [89]WindowMaker
    Minimalist Environments
    [90]Blackbox
    Widget Sets
    [91]GTK+
    [92]Qt
    Desktop Graphics
    [93]CorelDRAW (*)(w)
    [94]GIMP
    [95]KIllustrator (currently unavailable)
    [96]Photogenics (*)
    [97]Sketch
    Windows on Linux
    [98]WINE
    [99]Win4Lin
    [100]VMWare
    Kids S/W
    [101]Linux For Kids
    Send link submissions to [102]lwn@lwn.net
    
    
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