Comments on: Switching to Sunbird from KOrganizer: A comparative review http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2005/06/03/sunbird-vs-korganizer.html The weblog for Summersault, LLC, a website development firm in Richmond, Indiana Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:02:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Anders Berg http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2005/06/03/sunbird-vs-korganizer.html#comment-463 Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:48:11 +0000 http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2005/06/03/sunbird-vs-korganizer.html#comment-463 Well, certainly there's a advantage in usability in favor of KOrganizer when it comes to mouse usage - drag & drop events, change start & end time by dragging etc. I've seen less experienced/patient users curse at Sunbird because of its below par performance in this respect. Hopefully it will improve. With KOrganizer 3.2.1 I've experienced quite some crashes, and once even *complete loss* of a remote calendar file, it happened when clicking the display/don't display check box for the calendar a couple of times to force reload! An irritating KDE behaviour is that whenever KOrganizer reloads the calendar file from a remote location, a download window gets show above what you're currently doing, grabbing keyboard focus! Just for 1-3 seconds, but still *very* annoying! IF this gets shown to the user, then only in the KOrganizer window (e.g. on status bar)! So none of the two are really satisfying, but I prefer KOrganizer. Well, certainly there’s a advantage in usability in favor of KOrganizer when it comes to mouse usage - drag & drop events, change start & end time by dragging etc. I’ve seen less experienced/patient users curse at Sunbird because of its below par performance in this respect. Hopefully it will improve.

With KOrganizer 3.2.1 I’ve experienced quite some crashes, and once even *complete loss* of a remote calendar file, it happened when clicking the display/don’t display check box for the calendar a couple of times to force reload!

An irritating KDE behaviour is that whenever KOrganizer reloads the calendar file from a remote location, a download window gets show above what you’re currently doing, grabbing keyboard focus! Just for 1-3 seconds, but still *very* annoying! IF this gets shown to the user, then only in the KOrganizer window (e.g. on status bar)!

So none of the two are really satisfying, but I prefer KOrganizer.

]]> by: staul http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2005/06/03/sunbird-vs-korganizer.html#comment-400 Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:19:49 +0000 http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2005/06/03/sunbird-vs-korganizer.html#comment-400 i am a happy user of korganizer. sunbird's problems: 1. poor UI response. cpu/memory hog. 2. no journal support yet, and never see its clue for future support 3. inflexible UI customization, especially for standalone sunbird, you cannot even turn off the horribly large toolbar! i prefer *smooth and responsive* apps with a *complete* set of major functionality(refer to journal) rather than a stumble app with minor features but lact of major ones. and i believe minor ones are much more likely to be implemented soon than major ones ;) i am a happy user of korganizer.

sunbird’s problems:
1. poor UI response. cpu/memory hog.
2. no journal support yet, and never see its clue for future support
3. inflexible UI customization, especially for standalone sunbird, you cannot even turn off the horribly large toolbar!

i prefer *smooth and responsive* apps with a *complete* set of major functionality(refer to journal) rather than a stumble app with minor features but lact of major ones. and i believe minor ones are much more likely to be implemented soon than major ones ;)

]]> by: Katie http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2005/06/03/sunbird-vs-korganizer.html#comment-18 Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:55:32 +0000 http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2005/06/03/sunbird-vs-korganizer.html#comment-18 I can't figure out how to set each calendar to a different color in Sunbird. How does one do it? I can’t figure out how to set each calendar to a different color in Sunbird. How does one do it?

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