Switching to Sunbird from KOrganizer: A comparative review
Sunbird: A better default toolbar
It’s interesting to compare the default toolbars for Sunbird and KOrganizer. Although they are both very customizable, it’s widely known that users rarely change the defaults.
| KOrganizer - Too many icons! |
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| Sunbird - Just the essential icons |
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Sunbird has eight icons, all with calendar-specific functions. KOrganizer,
which seems to lack an icon for the basic “new event” function has twenty-nine icons, if I counted them all correctly. Having so many icons makes it visual chore to wade through them to find the one I need.
The “Forward” and “Back” buttons look similar to the less-useful “Undo” and “Redo” buttons. The Forward button itself is confusing, because it’s not clear “Forward how much?”. I have expected it to go forward one month and had the calendar progress only one week, a dis-orienting affect.
Sunbird has better solution to date navigation. It includues navigation arrows on “Month” and “Multi-Week” views that make it clear whether I will be progressing one month or one week at a time without having to guess.
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June 16th, 2005 at 10:55 am
I can’t figure out how to set each calendar to a different color in Sunbird. How does one do it?
October 19th, 2005 at 10:19 pm
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
November 24th, 2005 at 6:48 am
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.