Day planner: a request for comments
I just recently released version 0.1 of my day planning app suitably named, well, day planner. It’s written in perl and uses the perl-gtk2 library. What I would like you (the readers of planet mandriva and/or my blog) to do is go test it. Poke it with long and small sticks, smash at it, punch it, hit it, kick it. I want the program to be as stable and usable as possible. Report bugs, report usability problems and report feature requests. I want them all, and all help is welcome.
You can find a day planner RPM in cooker or on the day planner download page (along with numerous other options).
Please read the day planner TODO list before reporting issues. It’s not that long :).
You may also be interested in reading the day planner vision.
April 24th, 2006 at 00:46
Can only find v0.1 in cooker :( Very buggy… everything is greyed out and have a warning : failed to tell the daemon to reload its configuration file. This might cause problems.
If you want to pick nice ideas, maybe have a look at karm.
April 24th, 2006 at 09:06
That warning is harmless, it is fixed in the day planner svn. What is buggy? Everything greyed out? I have no way to reproduce this. What is greyed out, and are you sure about this?
I don’t want to pick nice ideas, I want first-hand user experience. If you’d want karm’s features you’d just use karm wouldn’t you? That’s why I’d rather have user feedback instead of just borrowing ideas here and there
April 25th, 2006 at 00:13
Ok, I’m gonna pay a little more attention to dayplanner, but the first time I’ve launched it and clicked “edit” : everythin was greyed out (when I say everything, I really mean it : no widget is clickable, I can only close the window). Note that I launched it while working under KDE. But I think to give you a correct error report, I should try the latest version, not v0.1when it will be uploaded to cooker (Maybe it is already done).
Sorry, I didn’t mean to be rude. Your software is great and I don’t compare it to karm. I was just pointing at you another tool with a similar goal. You, as a developper, may locate interesting ideas being implemented in karm (but I don’t use it :). karm is way too complex for me, so your tool may be the solution :) That’s why I was a bit frustrated not being able to test the latest version.
April 26th, 2006 at 20:04
0.1 is latest (unless you count SVN).
I’d be quite happy if my app would solve those problems.
About the issue with everything being greyed out, this happened when clicking edit? Running cooker and KDE? When clicking edit without anything to edit day planner isn’t suppose to do anything at all. Clicking add will grey out the main window and pop up a add-dialog. Thanks for any feedback.
PS. sorry about my slow response, I’m currently sick so I’m not up for development right now.
April 30th, 2006 at 20:02
I’m sorry, but would you care to explain how it would workout better than using KDE PIM, Evolution or Thuberbird Calendar? I don’t see a point to have a planner that isn’t integrated to anything.
April 30th, 2006 at 20:07
More integration might come.
Roughly it is that many people don’t need everything that integrated. Day planner isn’t aiming for the big corporate or power user market. It’s aimed at simple end-users. All of those you mention above are in my opinion too integrated. Not everyone wants a calendar integrated into their e-mail client. Not everyone needs a gazillion features in their planner. Day planner is for those people.
I’ve never claimed it’d be better for everyone, it won’t. But it will be better for some, such as myself. It’s a program following the unix philosophy that most people these days forget “make a tool that does one thing but does that well”. It also follows the GNOME HIG.
See http://home.gna.org/dayplanner/vision.html
May 25th, 2006 at 10:37
Sorry not to have answered earlier myself :) I haven’t been noticed of your reply and I’ve no clue why. However, I’ll test your new version, because it looks like it’s fixing my little bug. Thanks !