Hi everyone 🙂
So I need a more advanced calendar for putting birthdays, work to do, habits, information that I will need in future and so on.
Up to now I am using Thunderbird from W10-the importing of ics calendars was a pain in the ass, but eventually I got it to work-still I am searching for something private-it's focus must be to store calendars only locally-on a PC. It MUST be capable of easily exporting and re-importing ics calendars, no matter how big and bulky they get over time. Apart from that it would be good if it can read the birthday or holiday tags from Thunderbird. Here is my experience so far:
Thunderbird-very good, but too bulky-I don't want email client and definitely don't wanna see the stupid ,,set up an existing email account" every time I open it. Also importing is a little weird, but the problems is that I have read that importing calendar only works if the .ics file is not too big. If that is still true it's a BIG problem for me-I wanna be able to export and re-import it freely. Still it's the best looking calendar and the only one with option for less than 15 minutes tasks.
Evolution- maybe the worst of all calendars-it's very ugly and unusable when I have 15 minutes events-and they are a lot-from what I see I can only make at least 30 minutes events. It's the most bulky-non minimalistic of them all and it looks like it loves to be connected to internet.
KOrganizer-maybe the only true calendar app for Linux! No email bul$it, many settings and all in all what I wanna use-still it looks a bit old and doesn't hold 15 minutes very well. If there is a way to make it look more like Thunderbird's calendar and to handle short tasks better it's what I will use. Also it is very important to be able to export and re-import the ics calendars back.
Gnome calendar-the default calendar is just nothing-so minimalistic that it can't do anything-it's buggy from my experience and it just doesn't work-that's why I don't even consider it.

So all in all what is your prefered Calendar? Which one would you recommend me and what tricks would you give me in order to remove their drawbacks?

You'd have to figure out how to compile it for Solus or determine if dependencies can be satisfied from the Solus repo for the static portable build, but have you looked at Rainlendar?

    downhill I already got settled with Thunderbird-I put random e-email and passwords plus stopped everything with sync or internet.
    This theme can be closed 🙂

        Just tried to download/run but it requires old web-kit which won't ever be in the repository.

          Justin I've used it for years and have attempted to find alternatives a few times since going full time with Linux because of old dependency issues. I've never found anything that comes close to Rainlendar and I've been able to work around the old dependency issues by downloading older packages from the Debian Snapshot repo.

              downhill A snap would be ideal, I just don't have time currently to work on it. Might come back to it when I have time.

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