[Evolution-hackers] Evolution+CalDAV. What is evolution looking for in .ics?

[Simone <3nomis gmail com>]

Hi,

could someone please explain me how the Evolution client should be properly
configured to access a CalDAV server?

In the evolution's menu I choose:
file>>new>>calendar
then I enter:
Type: CalDAV
Name: Test
URL:  http://srv-caldav:8008/calendars/users/zanshin/calendar/
SSL:  False
username: zanshin

In my collection I have several events created by sunbird, and someone
by me, but
evolution doesn't show any. I can just only create new events :(, the
only events
that evolution will show on calendar.

Surfing http://srv-caldav:8008/calendars/users/zanshin/calendar/ I can
list all my
events:

Collection Listing
Name 	Size 	Last Modified 	MIME Type
20080820T213806Z.ics	396	2008-Aug-20 23:42	(collection)
575a13ae-1154-4646-99ba-63e4c19ebbfa.ics	404	2008-Aug-20 16:29	(collection)
calendario_7.ics	315	2008-Aug-20 16:47	(collection)

The content of three files:

20080820T213806Z.ics (created by evolution):
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
PRODID:-//Ximian//NONSGML Evolution Calendar//EN
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20080820T213750Z-11690-1000-1-0 dream0ne
DTSTAMP:20080820T213750Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080807
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:2
SUMMARY:test_evolution
DESCRIPTION:creato da evolution
CLASS:PUBLIC
X-EVOLUTION-CALDAV-HREF:20080820T213806Z.ics
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

575a13ae-1154-4646-99ba-63e4c19ebbfa.ics (created by Sunbird):
BEGIN:VCALENDAR

PRODID:-//Mozilla Calendar//NONSGML Sunbird//EN

VERSION:2.0

BEGIN:VEVENT

CREATED:20080820T142509Z

LAST-MODIFIED:20080820T142534Z

DTSTAMP:20080820T142509Z

UID:575a13ae-1154-4646-99ba-63e4c19ebbfa

SUMMARY:da sunbird2

DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080901

DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080902

TRANSP:TRANSPARENT

CLASS:PUBLIC
X-MOZ-LOCATIONPATH:575a13ae-1154-4646-99ba-63e4c19ebbfa.ics

END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR

calendario_7.ics (created by me using vobject):
BEGIN:VCALENDAR

VERSION:2.0

PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN

BEGIN:VEVENT

UID:uid_1468

DTSTART:20080820T000000Z

DTEND:20080823T000000Z

SUMMARY:Primo evento

END:VEVENT

BEGIN:VEVENT

UID:uid_1468

DTSTART:20080824T000000Z

DTEND:20080829T000000Z

SUMMARY:Secondo evento

END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR

Using Sunbird, I can list *every* event of the collection, so I can't
understand why
evolution doesn't.

Another issue that I experienced a lot of time is also the freeze of gnome.
Usually it occurs when evolution incurs an error (wrong credential,
wrong location of the collection, etc...) and starts flooding the server.
The strange thing is that sometime it seems to happen with Sunbird too.

I really need to understand what evolution does and in which way, can somebody
give me a hint please?

TIA!,
 Simone