Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

Excellent. Now compare it to AgendusPro, and you'll quickly notice a difference.

If emacs cover your needs, great. Despite being a long-term emacs user, a todo-list it isn't. Not for me.

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

Now, when I was a palm user, I thought Agendus sucked. Mostly eye candy stuff and the upgrade policy was for fools.

"For example, in Version 13, we’ve included the ability to add icons to Contacts."

Wow, good luck finding an application with that kind of horsepower, I'll leave you alone now.

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

That's just unbearable, that Nokia have not been willing/able to provide basic polished business applications for N900 :-/ I just can't get it, this isn't something special like "social networking". Even the old Palm OS has better application. OK, they could do with a facelift, but they the the job better. Just install Garnet VM and try it yourself.

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

And here is where we differ in opinion. The 'eye candy' you speak of has, many times, benefits in terms of productivity. Such as the icons for contacts.

We were, however, talking of the task manager.


Thank you. Much appreciated.

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

My fingers aren't very fast with the N900 keyboard, nor are they terrifically accurate, so a text based solution doesn't really work for me.

As for Palm task manager apps., nothing in Maemo begins to compare to Bonsai, nor does anything even rise to the level of ListPro. I continue to use Bonsai to manage my tasks, but it's a pain to need an emulator simply for task management. (Datebk6 is also miles better than anything for calendaring in Maemo; however, I was willing to give up on it in order to enable reliable reminders.) I do understand that Palm is a very mature platform, and I don't expect the same level of application maturity from Maemo.

The only big obstacle to having Task Coach on Maemo is its lack of a wxPython port. I complain about little in these forums, but it would have been nice if Nokia had provided a wxPython port, especially given that the closed iPhone platform has a port.

Many kudos to jackburton who has done a fair amount of work toward creating a wxPython port:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30782

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

Oh, I wouldn't say I'm doing a port of wxPython. No way. That is beyond my skills. What I have done, however, is create my own Debian lenny image and compile the latest and greatest wxPython packages in there. I then borrowed scripts from Easy-Debian and was able to install the deb version of taskcoach inside my own chroot.

I just discovered Presence VNC, which makes running full chroot desktops much easier than all the easy-debian scripts. It solves the problems of keyboard mappings and what-not.

Basically, I chroot into Lenny. Then I run vncserver on DISPLAY :2. I can then use presence VNC to run my desktop. No hassles. I'll try to post a video if anybody is interested. If so, then maybe I'll go back and refine and document the steps better.

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

Here is a screenshot. Presence VNC is really good.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/...21676518_z.jpg

And here is the link if the static image is not available:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandersnaxe/5191790889/

Here is a portrait shot.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/...78dc732e_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandersnaxe/5191835869/

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

@jackburton: Thanks for the updates. There's another thread here if you haven't seen it:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=65233

There's thought of making a QT port for Task Coach (instead of porting wxPython to Maemo). This would make a Maemo port easier and make Task Coach available for other platforms.

I'm not sure if the threads need merging.

Re: N900's one major shortcoming: ToDo List
 

hey zoner would you mind sharing anything special you did to n900 to run org-mode? are you using emacs from maemo or from easy-debian? ive not got around to have a good working emacs setup but am willing to give it a try, something that you might like is anything.el its the kind of thing that matches well with a phone i think.