I have been trying out evolution for a few months now, mainly as task
manager or calendar application (appointments, schedules, etc.).
However, it appears that it is not possible to keep two location in sync
as far as the Evolution calendar goes (home (Debian Etch) and university
(Ubuntu)). I am now thinking of trying out mozilla calendars
(firebird?). I guess that it has a calendar export feature, which I
haven't been able to find in evolution.

So, is evolution crippled when it comes to trying to copy one calendar
data to another location? Or am I missing something here.

And, for scheduls and appointments, is there any other application in
Linux which I can use and which allows data to be synced (or exported)
between two locations?

(Also, I do not want to have a calendar server running anywhere at all.)

thanks,
->HS



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On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 13:06 -0500, H.S. wrote:
> I have been trying out evolution for a few months now, mainly as task
> manager or calendar application (appointments, schedules, etc.).
> However, it appears that it is not possible to keep two location in sync
> as far as the Evolution calendar goes (home (Debian Etch) and university
> (Ubuntu)). I am now thinking of trying out mozilla calendars
> (firebird?). I guess that it has a calendar export feature, which I
> haven't been able to find in evolution.
>
> So, is evolution crippled when it comes to trying to copy one calendar
> data to another location? Or am I missing something here.
>
> And, for scheduls and appointments, is there any other application in
> Linux which I can use and which allows data to be synced (or exported)
> between two locations?
>
> (Also, I do not want to have a calendar server running anywhere at all.)

At least in Evolution 2.8, there seems to be an easy way to publish
calendars. See Preferences and Calendar and Tasks.

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Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 13:06 -0500, H.S. wrote:
>
>>I have been trying out evolution for a few months now, mainly as task
>>manager or calendar application (appointments, schedules, etc.).
>>However, it appears that it is not possible to keep two location in sync
>>as far as the Evolution calendar goes (home (Debian Etch) and university
>>(Ubuntu)). I am now thinking of trying out mozilla calendars
>>(firebird?). I guess that it has a calendar export feature, which I
>>haven't been able to find in evolution.
>>
>>So, is evolution crippled when it comes to trying to copy one calendar
>>data to another location? Or am I missing something here.
>>
>>And, for scheduls and appointments, is there any other application in
>>Linux which I can use and which allows data to be synced (or exported)
>>between two locations?
>>
>>(Also, I do not want to have a calendar server running anywhere at all.)
>
>
> At least in Evolution 2.8, there seems to be an easy way to publish
> calendars. See Preferences and Calendar and Tasks.
>

I tried to 'publish' the calendar to from my home computer to the
calendar.ics file (under ~/.evolution directory) in my univ. computer
(Ubuntu). But the Ubuntu machine's evolution doesn't read the new file
-- its calendar doesn't get updated.

I also tried to publish the home computer's calendar to my univ.
computer to a ~/calendar.ics file and then tried to import that file
into the evolution calendar. But that didn't seem to work either. I am
probably not doing something right. Any link about instructions on how
to go about doing this? Maybe there are some things I am not taking care
of someplace.

->HS



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On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 19:07 -0500, H.S. wrote:
> I tried to 'publish' the calendar to from my home computer to the
> calendar.ics file (under ~/.evolution directory) in my univ. computer
> (Ubuntu). But the Ubuntu machine's evolution doesn't read the new file
> -- its calendar doesn't get updated.
>
> I also tried to publish the home computer's calendar to my univ.
> computer to a ~/calendar.ics file and then tried to import that file
> into the evolution calendar. But that didn't seem to work either. I am
> probably not doing something right. Any link about instructions on how
> to go about doing this? Maybe there are some things I am not taking care
> of someplace.

I haven't tried this myself, but in Evolution 2.8 i believe you simply
need to do File > New > Calendar and select the location.

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On 12/1/06, H.S. <hs.samix@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been trying out evolution for a few months now, mainly as task
> manager or calendar application (appointments, schedules, etc.).
> However, it appears that it is not possible to keep two location in sync
> as far as the Evolution calendar goes (home (Debian Etch) and university
> (Ubuntu)). I am now thinking of trying out mozilla calendars
> (firebird?). I guess that it has a calendar export feature, which I
> haven't been able to find in evolution.

Firebird is a (non-Mozilla) database. Sunbird is the Mozilla
calendar. That being said, I'm not sure how easy it is to sync up.
If you use the calendar extension ("Lightning" is, I believe, the new
name) for Thunderbird/Icedove (if you're using that as your mail
client), there's SyncKolab, which stores your calendar entries as IMAP
messages (if you're using IMAP). That places a lot of assumptions on
your system, and I don't recall if it does updates particularly
gracefully. I know I tried that approach for a little while, and at
the time SyncKolab was sufficiently flaky that it drove me to Google
Calendar, with which I've been fairly happy. The other function of
SyncKolab, synchronizing address books, is still something I lack.

> (Also, I do not want to have a calendar server running anywhere at all.)

Does Google count?

If you want to get really wacky, keep your .ics file in CVS, updated
remotely through ssh. I don't know if the calendar-refresh issue gets
any easier, though.

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