Re: Timezone, zombie-calendars and few other things

[Paweł Gołaszewski <blues gda pl>]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Jim Nelson wrote:
> > - california uses UTC time zone, it does not respect system timezone,

> That's technically not true.  California uses the system timezone whenever 
> it creates events and the event's timezone when editing them.
>
> I have noticed that Google Calendar will quite often convert a new event to
> UTC.  So far I've not found a rhyme or a reason for the conversion, it doesn't
> happen every time.  It's possible other calendar servers will have a similar
> behavior.
>
> However, when I say it converts to UTC, I mean the system time is preserved,
> but the event is stored in UTC.  Ultimately, this should be invisible to you.
> Is that not the case?

My timezone is CET.
Every event fetched from server is 1 hour back (i.e. 1400 instead of 1500).
The same about event created from california.

> > - I have many CalDAV calendars and I made mistake (typo) in one URL. The 
> >   result was some zombie-caledar that prompts for password every time I 
> >   start calendar. I couldn't see it anywhere, I had to use evolution to 
> >   clean it up,
>
> There's a calendar manager in California.  It's in the Application Menu
> ("Calendars").  There's also a Calendars button on the right side of the
> toolbar.  From there you can remove a calendar.

Yes, I can only if the calendar is created properly.
If I make some mistake (i.e. URL) and calendar will not connect to CalDAV 
server I don't see that calendar in california menu.
On every california start there is prompt for password.

> > - california does not honour color of the calendar from CalDAV,
> Do you mean the calendar's color is stored on the server?

Yes.

> What server/service are you using?

Right now it's Baikal and owncloud.
But it works on most CalDAV servers.

> > - every each calendar I have to configure manually. Under OSX it's 
> >   possible to put one link and you have there all the calendars you use.
> We have a ticket for that: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734462

ok.

> > Calendar creation is also possible.
> I assume you mean create a new calendar on a CalDAV server.  I've added that 
> here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743265

Yes.

> > - icon in tray and/or some applet?
>
> Tray icons / applets are frowned upon by GNOME at the moment.  I will say 
> that because California uses EDS, events it manages are available in the 
> GNOME Shell calendar and Unity calendar applet.

when working under non-gnome it's problem...

> > - TODO lists support.
>
> That's a possibility, but at the moment we're focused on calendar support.

ok, that only additional functionality.

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pozdr.  Paweł Gołaszewski          jid:blues<at>jabber<dot>gda<dot>pl
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