My distro comes with evolution rather than calendar. I tried evolution but i found it to be a headache to figure out. I tried calendar instead, it’s better. But there’s one feature i wish for both and that is:
You see the tab with “today, no events”? When you click it to write down an event it opens either evolution or calendar depending on which you have. But my idea is that it’d be a lot more seamless if you could just write down the event right there in the tab and set a time and date rather than opening an entire program.
My distro comes with evolution rather than calendar. I tried
evolution but i found it to be a headache to figure out.
Hi,
I’m sorry to hear that. Is Evolution hard to configure or generally to
use it for you, please? I mean, if you could share what fails for you,
then maybe I can either explain why/what/where or maybe change
something.
You see the tab with “today, no events”? When you click it to write
down an event it opens either evolution or calendar depending on
which you have.
It’s part of the gnome-shell. There is no generic API nor protocol to
just fire somewhere “create event with summary XXX between 10:00am and
2:00pm” and forget of it, thus it’s at least right now not possible. I
do not know how the gnome-shell works in case there is no app serving
“calendars” work, whether it also tries to open a non-existent app, or
whether it simply does nothing when you click on that place. It’s not
much difference when it only opens the calendaring app, but it would be
a huge difference if you enter the event data into it and then realize
nothing can handle it. There is also a little problem with the calendar
to enter the event to. There is a “default” calendar, then it might be
it, I guess.
I mean, to be able to do what you suggest, you’d need to have:
a common protocol or API to be called
changed the apps to understand such protocol or API
change gnome-shell to allow entering event details there.
I see. So it’s a big task to get it changed in the way i describe?
As for evolution. I like the idea but it uses a lot of terms and jargon that you’d hear in a workplace that uses such a system a lot. All well and good but i just want to import my email and calendar from outlook. I tried a few times but it kept saying stuff about server type, alias, signatures and stuff SMPT or something. Then after i inserted my email it never got some kind of inbox or anything. It’s probably a great tool but it could probably use some tooltips when you hover over certain boxes that you need to fill, for less confusion.
So it’s a big task to get it changed in the way i describe?
Right, it would be a big task, requiring coordination between various
projects (and figuring out the best API for it).
i just want to import my email and calendar from outlook.
Being it a standalone Outlook, you’d need a PST file from it, but if
you mean outlook.office365.com, then with evolution 3.58.x or newer you
can install an evolution-ews package, then as the Server Type in the
File->New->Mail Account you pick “Microsoft 365” and then your email
and it’s it. You will get all contacts, calendars, mails,… from the
Exchange server. Not all protocols have builtin support, the connection
to the Exchange servers does not, thus it needs to install additional
plugin/extension.
Otherwise about the terms, I do not think it’s different from any other
mail apps When you use some common addresses like user@outlook.com,
then it can look up the settings for you and just use it, but not all
servers out there are known, thus many require manual settings. I agree
it can be confusing, but when you search the provider web site for the
settings to connect with a desktop application then you’ll see pretty
much the same names for the values the server uses to connect to it.
You are not supposed to figure out those server names, ports, etc, the
server admins are supposed to provide that information to you (granted,
if they support such connections).
