GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 384783
Allow other apps for viewing calendar events and tasks
Last modified: 2009-08-11 18:01:33 UTC
In the current version of the clock applet is inpossible to select which evolution-data-server based application will be lauched when you double-click on a date. This should be changed to allow applications like dates (small callendar application using the evolution-data-server as backend: http://projects.o-hand.com/dates) to be lauched. Ps: This feature is specialy important because evolution calendar is unusable by itself (bug 318212)
There is a bug in the Dates bugzilla related to this one: http://bugzilla.o-hand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=185
I agree that this option should be added as soon as possible.
I suggest you open a bug against gnome-control-center/preferred applications to let the user choose the preferred application for calendar. And make this bug depends on it.
I opened a bug here http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392759 but I don't know how to make this one depend on that.
*** Bug 430387 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 488762 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 97588 [details] [review] proposed patch v2 This is the second version of the patch from the dupe I created (sorry). It puts the prefrence in /desktop/gnome/applications/calendar/exec and has a hardcoded fallback to evolution in case gnome-desktop and gnome-panel fall out of sync.
*** Bug 482352 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Oh oh please apply this Vincent. :)
Is the gconf key shipped in a schema?
No, it would need to be added to either this patch, or whatever sets the other schemas in that gconf tree.
So the patch won't go in until there's no schema for this. (it should probably be a patch for libgnome) Note that the patch handles tasks and calendar items the same way. It won't work for dates, I guess, since I don't think it handles tasks. Should we have separate settings for them?
Okay, I'll work on a libgnome patch tonight. Yes, tasks should be handled separately.
Filed #497180 with the libgnome patch.
Some one fromn o-hand still needs to take care of this on the dates side of things. There is a prelinary patch for dates at http://bugzilla.o-hand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=185
Happy to see some work on this bug, thank you. Since i filled Bug 482352 that has been marked as a duplicate of this bug, i'd like to know if dates can sync with online calendars like Google calendar (i think no)
Alex: yes, when GNOME supports calling other apps we'll add support to Tasks and Dates. antistress: Dates can read the same calendars as Evolution, so you can either use the ical files Google provides or the Google Calendar plugin (although this may require a one-line patch to Dates, not sure).
Created attachment 105057 [details] [review] Updated patch dor both calendar and tasks Now That schemas have landed I've updated the patch and made it applicable to both calendaring and tasks. They are somewhat intertwined (at least in SVN head) and the code is very similar so it makes sense to do them together.
just for information, Google helped synchronise Outlook and Google Calendar (Google Calendar Sync) http://www.clubic.com/actualite-128492-google-synchronise-outlook-google-calendar.html I'd love to see an easy way to add events directly in GNOME clock/calendar (maybe a button that lead to a very basic UI) and to synchronize (2 way sync) GNOME clock/calendar with Google Calendar
Syncing is a separate concept, and should be handled by Opensync/conduit/something else.
So shall i fill another bug report against one of these ?
There isn't a bug, if you want to sync your evolution calendar with google, then use opensync or conduit.
thank you for your answers but if there is no easily discoverable way to do it, maybe there should be a bug report about that ?
It's perfectly discoverable: you install a 3rd party syncing tool like conduit or opensync, and use that. As GNOME doesn't yet ship syncing tools, this is outside the scope of GNOME.
ok, many thanks
Created attachment 114873 [details] [review] Re-diff the patch since it barely applies ping?
Created attachment 114874 [details] [review] The patch for real this time
Comment on attachment 114874 [details] [review] The patch for real this time If it's not clear, 114874 is the current version of the patch. I'd really like some feedback on this.
The keys are there in gcont; is there any chance this patch is still feasible, or if there's been other progress in putting this functionality elsewhere? (ATM setting the desktop/applications/{calendar, tasks} keys in gconf doesn't appear to have any effect).
*** Bug 585142 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Finally pushed to git, with a few changes.