Hi. For an ordinary people like me, the computers calendar is not so much used as it could. This has the effect that I don't even check my calendar every day - and occasionally I miss a birthday or some other appointment.
I thought that it would be nice if I was reminded of any events that I have the minute I open my gnome session. The best solution that I came up with is a pop-up, such is used by Mail Notification program and others alike. See the picture at: http://koti.mbnet.fi/mikko75/kuvat/cal_events.png (sorry the size of the image: 660 kB...) The pop-up is originally from Mail Notification 3.0 (http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify) and the icon is from gnomes own icon theme (in ubuntu: /usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/stock/document/stock-todo.png) There should be a few options such as the duration and location of the pop-up and how many events are shown (or rather how many days are shown) Anyone else interested in this kind of feature? What do you think is this doable? I like the interface of Mail Notification and since it's free software could this be done by combining code from that and the mini-cal applet that pops-up when you click the clock-applet. Of course this could be achieved simply by enabling the mini-cal applet to show up in the start-up if there are any events for the day, but at least in Finnish version it is not so clear at least in the case of birthdays - all you can see is 'Whole day Birthday: ' and the name itself doesn't fit in... But even this would be a huge improvement for a user like myself. Too bad I'm not a programmer, so I must rely to others for help. Thank you, Mikko Saarinen _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
