On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:50:05 -0700 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I always use Yumex unless I need to install something that was not in > the repositories. I'm just a bad searcher. AFAIK, yum searches the Name and Summary fields for a match to the keyword that you provide. I'd bet you used "remind", which is perfectly reasonable. I got my selection by using "calendar", which may not be so reasonable. It's just that I know that calendar programs are usually what provide that sort of function. Of course, it depends on description the developers wrote. "Project FooBar(tm) keeps track of your schedule! Yay!" is not going to show up for either "calendar" or "remind", or "appointment". Though it probably would if "schedule" was the search key. Unfortunately, this boils down to guessing what the description might be. Not the best way of going about things, but it's what we've got to work with. (*grump*) > I should have mentioned at the beginning that command line tools are > not suitable for me. I almost never have a terminal window open. I > also should have mentioned that browser based calendars are not what > I want either. I already have too many tabs open all the time. Heh, I'm just the opposite. I *always* have a terminal window open, usually with several tabs. I'd be lost without a command line in which to type incantations. :-) I agree with you about the browser calendars, though. Running a browser for something simple like a calendar is massive overkill imho. > Orage is the winner! I have it configured and working great. Not only > does it do exactly what I want (and nothing more), but I learned > something from it. I was trying to change the way it displayed the > date and it said I could use any strftime code to change the way it > displayed things. I had never heard of strftime before, but now I have > a web page bookmarked where all the possibilities are explained. Very > handy knowledge to have. > > Thanks for the tips! Hey, no problem. Like I said in my earlier post, I was looking for something along those lines myself. Perhaps not surprisingly, I chose Remind/TkRemind. It works from both the GUI and the command line, which I like. Granted, the GUI isn't very pretty, but it works, and it's easy to use. Anyway, I was happy to help, and I'm glad you found what you wanted. --Dale -- The Dilettante's Version of the Three Laws of Thermodynamics: One: You Can't Win. Two: You Can't Even Break Even. Three: You Cannot Get Out of the Game. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
