[KLUG Members] FYI: [users-groupware] New version of Mozilla Calendar]

[Adam Williams]

>>Horde offers this with IMP(mail) and Kronolith (calendar). 
>Please tell me more about Kronolith (my main reason for looking at
>PHPgroupware is the calendar function).

The currently released version is a basic calendering app.  With
repeating events, day/week/month views, etc...  Quite ascetic for a web
based calender (remains readable with lots of events).

HEAD version supports invitationals (pick a list of users to invite,
ical attachments are sent...)  ical attachments can be directly posted
to a calendar from IMP, or clicked on to be processed by the client
(palm desktop, etc...)

Currently Kronolith supports libmcal and rdbms backends.  libmcal
includes (at least theoretically) ICAP support for talking to an ICAP
(calendering) daemon.

Problem is that there are no working calendering daemons.  So no shared
calendars, etc... yet.  But that is the cool thing about the mozilla
announcement.  The egg is starting to rock back and forth, and tiny
little cracks are appearing.  We all wait in breathless anticipation.

>Can users set ACL's to let others see their calendar?

Not yet :(

>Can it send email for notification?  Like if I have an event I want it
>to remind me of, but I normally use some other (non IMP) client for
>email, can I get a notification email?

Yes, with a few caveats.

>Does it allow for a "company calendar" for major events?

Not yet,  but mozilla just invented open source remote calenders so it
should be VERY soon now.

>Is IMP still a major pain-in-the-you-know-where to install, like back in
>the IMP version 2.x days?  (I can live with, if the calendar is good)

It is better.  The phplib requirement is gone,  horde is now autonomous,
so one layer of obfuscation is gone.