terrencegf inspired me to look into GPE a little bit. I had always wondered why the "GPE Calendar" home plugin would not work, and found that it was because it had never been converted to OS2008. I fixed it up a bit and got it running on my tablet. It is interesting but very simplistic compared to GPE Summary.

I then turned my attention to "GPE Summary" thinking that the only thing missing was the ability to monitor for alarms. I added some code to have it do just that, with the result that I no longer have to have GPE Calendar open to trigger alarm events. This is a big improvement to me, so I will include the package here.

I emailed the patch to Graham (the maintainer of the Maemo packages) so hopefully this become official if I did it right. I have test with the calendar opened and closed, and it works as I expect. Feel free to comment on whether it works for you or not.

Now if you use my gpesummary packages and terrencegf's gpe-calendar package, you should have a PIM suite that acts a bit more like you would probably expect. The calendar closes when you hit the close button, and alarms still trigger without the calendar being open.

Enjoy.