GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 273176
Add "add to calendar" to iCal attachments dropdown menu
Last modified: 2013-09-13 01:00:07 UTC
If you receive an email with an iCal attachment, Evolution should at least include an "Add to calendar" option.
Please ignore iCal, it's vCal. It's really easy to reproduce, just add an appointment into the calendar and forward it to yourself.
if you only send an ical attachment by using "forward as icalendar" of the context menu in evolution's calendar, you get the option to accept that appointment and you have to choose the calendar you'd like to add the appointment to. if you save an appointment to disk and just attach it to an email you compose in evolution, evolution currently freezes (see bug bug 314096) so i cannot test this case. this is evolution-2.3.7.0.200508170145-0.snap.novell.11.1 on suse9.3. celso: so can this be considered fixed? :-)
hmmm not really. I attached a .ical file (saved from evo's calendar to local disk) and sent an email to myself. The possible actions for the attachment are: - Save As - Hide - Open in Text Editor The attachment is identified as "vCalendar interchange file attachment (temp.ical)" (temp.ical is the file name).
ok, since bug 314096 is fixed now, i tested this against evolution-2.3.8: i save an appointment to disk by right-clicking on it and call it "appt.ical". i then removed the appointment from my calendar and attached it to an email i sent to myself. the mime type of the attachment was automatically set to "text/calendar" and i chose "propose automatical display of attachment" in the composer. when receiving the message, i am able to accept it and to add it to the calendar. the attachment is also identified as "vCalendar interchange file attachment" (appt.ical). so to me this is fixed, please reopen if you still have problems with this. in the dropdown menu, i also onlys see those three options (Save As; Hide; Open in Text Editor), but the ability to accept it and/or to open a calendar is displayed below as the "content" of the attachment. note: evolution-2.3.8 is an unstable development version of evolution. the next stable version is 2.4 and will be released about september 7th, 2005. so... "be prepared!" ;-) cheers, andre
I'm also using evo-2.3.8 (Ubuntu Breezy if it matters) and I can't find that "Propose automatical display of attachment" option. Yet, there's this ltip plugin that enables the display of vcal's in the composer. If I turn it on, it enables *what should be the default Evolution behaviour*. Are you sure you're trying to compete with other products like Microsoft Outlook? Those don't need external plugins for internal integration of components.
yes, you have to have the itip formatter plugin enabled. where do you see "*what should be the default Evolution behaviour*."? can you submit a screenshot (without confidential data ;-)? is there any output on the shell? hmmm... :-/ plugins aren't "external". plugins are a nice way to have an easy-to-use interface to code stuff for everyone and to not overload the current UI with options you do not need. and who wants to compete with microsoft? :-) i'm reopening this.
Created attachment 51460 [details] Screenshot w/ ltip enabled
Sure thing, there's a screenshot of Evolution with ltip enabled. If you press that "dropdown" next to "vCalendar interchange file attachment", the only option's you'll see are the same that popup if you don't have ltip enabled, which are: - Save As - Hide (not sure about this one) - Open in Text Editor If Evolution can detect and handle vCalendar files, why doesn't it have a simple "add to calendar" default action for this mime-type? To me, and I'm trying to be in Average Joe's shoes as hard as I can, this is the expected application behaviour, not "Save As" or "Open in Text Editor"...
alright, now i get you :-) so this is about «Add "add to calendar" to iCal attachments dropdown menu» because itip formatter does not have to be activated. a valid request, thanks for your patience with me... :-)
srag, is this possible in the 2.5 timeframe? i'd really like to see this, but i have no idea if additionbal code is required for this. enlighten me! ;-)
Andre, if what you are asking is 'Import to Calendar' or 'Import to Tasks' on a vCal attachment and a calendar/task selector to select the group, then be happy. Me and Johnny added a experimental eplugin for this :) it is in 2.5.5 iirc. Bugs are around this. beware of it ;-)
ICS-Importer is a standard eplugin from 2.6. Closing bug.