Orage
Orage is a new modern calendar application for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Orage has been designed from the start to be quick and easy-to-use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options.
Orage was my calendar of choice, but it is no longer part of Xfce and is not included in Debian repos after Buster.
Features
Tags
- Xfce
- Task Manager
- xfce-project
- xfce-panel-plugin
Orage News & Activities
Recent activities
justarandom added Orage as alternative to Right Calendar
Orage information
Developed by
Juha KauttoLicensing
Open Source and Free product.Alternatives
9 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
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Office & Productivity
What is Orage?
Orage is a new modern calendar application for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Orage has been designed from the start to be quick and easy-to-use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options. Orage is fast and responsive and uses minimal system resources. Orage has been translated into several (currently about 30) languages.
With Orage you can store events and get both audible and visible alarms when the time comes near. Orage can handle repeating events and full day type events (like birthdays). All times are timezone aware.
Orage also contains Xfce panel plugin, which is capable of showing date and time in various format and is also timezone aware. Clicking this orage-clock panel plugin raises and hides Orage main calendar window.
Comments and Reviews
However, the Calendar is VERY hard to use, NOT easy to use. Trying to figure out options is near impossible. It also doesn't have a common option of setting reminders to AM/PM even though the entire rest of your system uses this instead of "metric" time (24 hour clock with no AM/PM.) This issue has not been fixed in at least 5 years. Oh, and don't use the reminders feature. You'll set it to remind you 5 minutes (no days) ahead of an event, and it will notify you EVERY day, for days before, and days after. No way to fix it. (I've noticed this with version 4.12.1) Reminders aren't all that handy anyway, you do have options to set them for "notification" or "orage window" and you can even (if you figure out how) have them come up at the bottom of the clock when you pull it up, but they're quite annoying rather than helpful. I've taken to writing all my appointments on sticky pads next to the monitor, instead. Also, "Orage Globaltime" bundled with this also has the problem of not being able to set regular time (vs. metric time aka 24 hour clock with no AM/PM) Maybe when we all learn the metric system and are able to tell what time 27:75 is instead of say 3:15 pm...