de-evolutionize the gnome-panel calendar
I thought it was built-in only for Evolution, you know, that mini-calendar that opens up when you click on the time/date in Gnome’s panel. Well, it is actually possible to have it open (read only, though) another calendar, as long as it’s web-based. [note: there are some other possibilities, but I don’t understand them enough to expand on them.]
So although I can’t get a local ics file to show up in that calendar, if it is sync’ed online, for instance with Google Calendar, then it’s possible to have it show on your desktop.
I followed Britt’s & Bryan’s guides, and both of them were gracious enough to answer my dumb little questions regarding command-line syntax. Basically, for Ubuntu Dapper, all you have to do is type, in one line:
/usr/lib/evolution-webcal/evolution-webcal http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/*****gmail.com/private-******/basic.ics
at the command-line (with your personal information where the *stars are).
After going through all that, though, I realized that whatever calendar you have added and enabled within Evolution will show on the mini-calendar applet. You don’t have to open Terminal - just add calendar/s as necessary in Evolution.
Unfortunately, it seems you can never uninstall Evolution, if you want to have control over that panel-applet, and you will only have read-only access to it. If you know a workaround for that, though, please tell!
Helpful sites:
- Lukewarm Tapioca - Britt’s guide
- Mashing Google Calendar with Gnome - Bryan’s guide
- Topaz Now - EXTREMELY insightful post on the topyli desktop for GNOME, includes ideas on setting up desktop synchronization & management of information
- Holy Grail of Sync’ing - useful post on synchronizing calendars & contacts
- Schedule World - claims to help you synch with everything
