Article on how to subscribe to your Apple calendar on CalDAV systems, including clients such as Thunderbird. Useful to help integrate Linux systems and similar with your Apple environment.
#calendaring
Another notable feature merged in the GNOME Calendar live coding session today: the ability to export an entire calendar as an .ics file.
This was originally added to the wishlist 10 years ago: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/31
Thanks to @FineFindus's dedication towards implementing this (alongside the individual event .ics export feature) this year, you will be able to use this feature in #GNOME 50 (or the nightly flatpak version of Calendar today): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/615
on the topic of calendar+task management, one component I'm still missing is a desktop #CalDAV solution which either does both, or is composed of two apps which do #calendaring and #tasksorg tasks.
I believe my Android solution will work for my needs, but it'd be better to be able to update both calendar and tasks from desktop too, especially if I ever lose access to my phone.
the issue is that CalDAV support is rare and CalDAV-with-proper-tasks is rarer.
Great news for @EvolutionGnome users: in Evolution 3.58 (expected to ship alongside GNOME 49 in Q4 2025), the calendar events conflict checks in meeting invitations received via email will now respect the user preferences; this will boost performance quite a bit: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/1441#note_2382738
We will need someone to implement the corresponding per-calendar property in #GNOMECalendar's calendars management GUI, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1297
Does anyone out here have days where they have more than 7 to 10 (or more) all-day events in their #calendaring app, instead of time-based events, and if so, why?
My default assumption is "surely nobody does that?": https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/917
It burns to be running a poll to get a meeting time, when we all have Calendars populated with data already.
In case anyone feels up for a feature implementation challenge in GNOME Calendar: it would be cool to at least have a read-only implementation of meeting attendees, as a stepping stone to full-fledged meeting invitations management someday. See this limited-scope actionable ticket for details: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1354
Alright, you FLOSS business folks with countless appointments and meeting invitations each month, hear me out: what if in @EvolutionGnome we could have an integrated visual preview of the surrounding schedule context of an event you are being invited to? 🤔
Here's my ponies-on-rainbows suggestion for it (other #GNOME email clients are welcome to steal my idea): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2950
I always saw "floating time" events as an "accidental" undefined timezone state for #calendaring events.
I cannot believe it took me twenty years to finally understand the true usecase for this weird format feature: routines/habits that you want to do at the same time of the day no matter where you happen to be in the world. I am mind-blown :psyduck:
Here's my feature specification for #GNOMECalendar's timezones picker GUI that I hope to see happen in time for #GNOME 48: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1329
New #calendaring #UX design nightmare: timeless time-based events!
How would you expect to manage and visually represent, in #GNOMECalendar, events with a start time but without a defined end time? :psyduck:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1321#note_2295860
Apropos of nothing (OK, ongoing outages at my provider), does anyone know of a calendar client for Android that uses the same on-disk directory format that PIMUtils VDirSyncer uses? Or any other flat-file calendar database or files tree that could be shared for sync?
Some additional details to take into account for whoever wants to do meeting events invitations handling in their standalone #email client (like #Geary and Envelope) for integration with #calendaring apps in #GNOME: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/issues/363#note_2222868
Related: a newcomers-friendly bite-sized feature request in #GNOMECalendar to ensure we don't wreck mail clients' performance with large amounts of online calendars: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1297
Narrowed down a performance issue in @EvolutionGnome where checking for "existing version of this appointment" (when receiving an invitation via email) is very slow.
In the end it's mainly due to a rather simple thing: the GUI checkboxes allowing you to exclude events from "conflicts search" scope do not actually limit the scope for "search for events' existence in the calendars" 😬
Help wanted:
* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/1441
* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2847
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#events that affect me (e.g. my son being busy) but not everything on some other person's calendar.
The ideal solution would be that #Google would allow one to "merge" events so that they only appear once on the calendar even when viewing multiple calendars.
But then again, the ideal solution would be a better #calendaring application. For example, I think I'd like for dates to scroll rather than move month by month - that way I could be viewing the last two weeks in June and the first
New #calendaring specs compliance nightmare fuel for #GNOMECalendar developers and designers: the fact that events can reference completely made up "virtual" timezones 😵
In which a university campus platform declares to be its own timezone (with #DST, of course!): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1243
DST starts this weekend for most of the U.S. And I'm also suspicious of time zone definitions & updates that are pushed out the Friday before we start DST, ya know? 🤔
#DST #computing #timeZones #calendaring #timekeeping
Making a "smart" #calendaring application that can guess user intent when setting/modifying an event's start/end times can be a challenge.
For example, in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1123 I am struggling to think of a straightforward heuristic for the app to determine what to do when the user inputs an end time before the start time. "Snake, you can't do that, you'll create a time paradox!"
Hivemind, can you help?
I’m sure glad I learned how to play Tetris as a kid. Just didn’t know I’d have to apply those skills to re-arranging my work calendar each week. #Work #Calendaring #Tetris
Interesting open source alternative to #Calendly that I just DISCOVERED. Anyone know if it's accessible?
"Meet Cal.com, the event-juggling scheduler for everyone. Focus on meeting, not making meetings. Free for individuals."
Friendly out of office reminder:
When we are talking about dates, “through” means “including,” not “until.”
“Out through the 12th” means you are not coming back until the 13th.
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