Re: [Evolution] Problem viewing calendars on multiple machines

["Michael A. Gilchrist" <mikeg utk edu>]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Pete Biggs wrote:

> > Ummmm... no offense, but just looking at your instructions for changing
> > machines makes me think that the design of evolution is a bit insane.  I
> > really don't feel like what I want to do should be that difficult.  I figured
> > since evolution is the default calendar for most linux systems, it wouldn't
> > be... well such a pain to work with on multiple machines.
>
> The issue really is that Evo is a client program, it was never designed
> to offer the data that it uses to other programs, it was designed to be
> a consumer of data from elsewhere.

Okay, that helps me understand the problem a lot better.

> As others have pointed out there *are* programs that will successfully
> extract data from Evo and synch it with another data source, but they
> mostly rely on having some external synch server - that can be a 3rd
> party, or you could run a server locally, but it's not a 30 second job
> to do.
>
> If it is only calendars you want to sync, then I suppose you might get
> some mileage out of playing with the calendar.ics files.  But as poc
> said, you should definitely make sure that Evo isn't running when you
> synchronise - and I'm sure the Evo developers would point out that the
> consequences of playing with the .ics files in Evo's local store is
> undefined!
I tend to leave both my workstation and laptop running most of the time, so 
shutting down evolution to sync will be a bit of a pain.  Moving to an online 
service may, unfortunately, be in my future.

I do have one question about all of this.  I have created a number of 
different "On this computer" calendar and none of them are accessible from my 
laptop.  However, there is one calendar, "Personal" -- which I don't remember 
creating- *DOES* appear on both machines.  If I understood why this calendar 
can do this, I wonder if I could understand how to perhaps coax my other 
calendars to have similar behavior.

My other thought was having a bash script running that uses sed to somehow 
replace machine1 name and ID with machine2 name and ID and vice versa. 
Perhaps that's what was underlying the other suggestions, but it wasn't clear 
to me.

Thanks for the input!

Mike