Lightweight Google Calendar notifications

Copyright Andras Horvath, 2009

This program periodically checks all of your Google Calendars and displays a desktop notification via libnotify whenever a reminder is set for an event. Libnotify windows receive no focus and don't take keyboard input away from other applications, yet are clearly visible even on a cluttered desktop.

Also; getting 'thrown out' from Google Services is apparently normal, and gcalert will reconnect automatically.

Installation

Arch Linux

You can simply download the gcalert package from the AUR.

Requirements

Debian/Ubuntu Packages

apt-get install python-notify python-dateutil python-googleapi notification-daemon

TODO

• Warn for insecure permissions of the OAuth file.
• Use some sort of proper logging with log levels, etc.
• Options for selecting which calendars to check
• Snooze buttons; this requires a gtk.main() thread and that's not trivial.
• Unit Tests, after having a main().
• Multi-language support.
• GUI and status bar icon.
• Add systemd scripts to Arch package
• Parameter for changing notification text formatting

License

Copyright 2009 Andras Horvath (andras.horvath nospamat gmailcom) This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.