Re: [Evolution] Evolution Tasks Error

[Pramathesh Ambasta <pramathesh nregaconsortium in>]

On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 08:49 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 11:59 +0530, Pramathesh Ambasta wrote:
> > 
> > Unable to connect to 'Tasks': Cannot open calendar: Data source 
> > 'Tasks' does not support OAuth 2.0 authentication
> > 
> > I suppose  this error is related to the first error message? In 
> > which case is there a way to enable OAuth with evolution?
> > 
> > Also, while the message says that Evolution cannot open calendar, it 
> > does. I am able to see my google calendar very well.
> > 
>
>         Hi,
> Google Calendar and Google Tasks are two different things. The 
> Calendar uses CalDAV, while the Tasks use libgdata (since 0.15.1). 
> There was a bug that the Google Tasks source was added even when it 
> might not, which is fixed either in 3.12.8 or 3.12.9 (the current 
> stable version is 3.12.9, while the 3.12.10 will be released the next 
> Monday) of evolution-data-server.
>
> Evolution cannot do the OAuth authentication on its own currently, it 
> expects the token from the GNOME Online Accounts. That's the reason 
> why users cannot add the Google Tasks source within Evolution itself, 
> but will have it available, if they configure a Google account in GOA.
>         Bye,
>         Milan
Thanks for your quick and detailed response.If I understand you correctly, the updated release (3.12.8 or 9 or 10) will fix this problem? or will it simply drop trying to integrate Google Tasks with EDS?

Thanks in advance

Pramathesh