What are lightweight calendar apps for Xfce (or GTK)?

[RygelXVI]

Hi.

A long time ago I used Orage to handle my ICS calendar as a file. It was ugly but 100% efficient and totally satisfied me. Unfortunately it has been, I presume, abandoned and I have not been able to find a suitable replacement ever since. I’ve tried Thunderbird (to also replace Claws Mail) but it came with another batch of annoyances and I grew fed up of it. I’ve also wanted to try Gnome calendar but it comes with Evolution Data Server /o\ . As for Claws, plugin vcalendar doesn’t seem to support ICS files (as a backend data file that is)… My bad: it does! My bad again: it does but read-only…

I only need an app that can use my ICS file(s) as a backend and take new appointments/events when I need to, preferably from my Xfce desktop — I know there are console applications and they are great however I need something to notify me of upcoming events using Xfce’s notification area, for instance.

Is there such a thing?

Thanks in advance for any hint or suggestion.

[linux-aarhus]

A farscape reference … when John Crichton meets the prisoners on Moya including Dominar Rygel XVI

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[n2o]

While I’m not sure this is really Manjaro related… do you know this site?

[banjo]

@RygelXVI

Is there such a thing?

Yes, it is (still) called orage and it is in the AUR. Why don’t you continue using it ?
It’s fine (even on stable branch).

[RygelXVI]

@banjo

Yes, it is (still) called orage and it is in the AUR. Why don’t you continue using it ?

Using AUR is not especially recommended, right? I admit I never have Manjaro break because I’m using AUR but I haven’t been using this OS long enough to have experienced such a breakage.

@n2o

While I’m not sure this is really Manjaro related… do you know this site ?

Thanks. Will check that out

[nikgnomic]

I replaced orage calendar with gsimplecal but it does not have the additional features you want

I suggest try remind or pantheon-calendar

[RygelXVI]

I have tried pantheon-calendar; it doesn’t live on ICS files, only imports them, which is not what I want. As for remind, neither that one uses ICS files as the backend, so neither will that one do unfortunately. I don’t want to have to import my ICS file everytime I add events, I want a solution that shares a single file, just like Orage. IMHO I’ll just install it from AUR and call it a day. Thanks for your suggestions anyway, these are really nice pieces of software.