I've been playing with the different calendar options:

Mcalendar, beautiful interface, but lacking in a standard calendar view! Also lacks the ability to see details saved within an event.

Pimlico Dates, Not very pretty, not very friendly. (maybe I didn't understand it)

GPE Calender, Functional, you can view event details (but you have to go to edit) and when used with Erminig you have the ability to sync to google. Not very pretty though, and it would be nice to start the week with a Sunday rather than Monday. It would also be great if the Desktop applet was transparent.

Has anyone found something that looks like Mcalender, and works like GPE? I would kill for that app!

Steve

I'm a GPE Calendar user... sometimes you just gotta use what works . :-(

Try Osmo; search for it on forums, there is a port + .deb posted.

From what Khertan has said, a number of the issues you have discussed with mcalendar are being worked on (grid, more detailed information, etc), some for the next version and some a little further down the line.

Other than mCalendar, I haven't found anything that suits my needs. But that's just my context. I don't use grid views very much (if I'm planning 2 days in advance I'm lucky!) so that was a non-issue, and the auto-sync combined with built-in alarms make it very useful (I use Google's calendar hosting at work for scheduling our technicians).

This is a perpetual issue. GPE has the most uses, because it sucks a tiny bit less than the others. mCalendar is cute.

And you can expect Erminig to keep mysteriously breaking on your data.

There is nothing very good on the platform, nothing that will really help you get in control of your time. Why? "Good enough is the enemy of great".

The only usable one for me so far is GPE Calendar...the Start on Sunday is a non-issue for me (and if I'm not mistaken there's a patch for this floating around)...but I agree that visually GPE is not exactly sexy...

Since my reinstall and resync Erminig has really pulled it's socks up and it has been working brilliantly. Maybe I will just have to get used to GPE and weeks starting with a Monday, who knows maybe it will alter my view of the world.

I think the best poison available is GPE. It has few weaknesses, but not so many as the others do. You can even sync the events to webdav or caldav server. For me that was an key issue - couldn't care less about google's services.

sadly its only a one way sync iirc, you cant use gpe to put entries onto said server, only read them...

this a suggestion from out in left field, but I use
korganizer after installing penguinbait's kde
desktop for the tablet. This is a very powerful
calendar application. But of course you have to
use kde which is a big shift ...