Re: [Evolution] WebCal import fails

[Jay Strict <jay strict posteo de>]

On 2015-05-04 at 14:47, Milan Crha wrote:
> Is the calendar public, thus anyone can use it, or it's a semi-private
> calendar? Being it a public calendar maybe someone can look on it. All
> there matters is the version of the .ics file. The RFC I gave a link
> to describes version 2.0. Earlier versions didn't have the UID
> mandatory. Maybe a change in the On The Web calendar could be done to
> add artificial UID properties for older versions of the .ics files.

The first 3 lines of the .ics file are:

============================================================
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//dhtmlXScheduler//NONSGML v2.2//EN
============================================================

So I assume it is an iCal v2.0 file with malformed entries.
The calendar is semi-private, but I can send the entire file in a
private email if that matters to you.

> > [On a side note, let me state that I feel it is a bug in Evolution 
> > that Evolution does display the error messages *only* in the log 
> > files. Regarding the GUI one gets the impression that the .ics file 
> > was imported just fine. Would you agree that this is a bug? Should I 
> > report it to the bug tracker?]
>
> It depends on the point of view. Say you've 100 events in the .ics
> file. Each being affected by a different issue, some with missing UID,
> some with other issues. How would you report such issue to the user?
> Collecting all the errors and sending them all at once, cluttering the
> UI? The other thing is that with the On The Web calendars you usually
> do not have any way to influence the content, as in your case. I know
> it's no strong argument, I'm just thinking aloud. I agree that there
> could be a notice that not all events (tasks or memos) were shown from
> the .ics file (this answers one of my above questions too).

Cluttering the UI should certainly be avoided.
I would display an icon
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gnome-dialog-warning.svg next to
the calendar in in the calendar list.
(Like the one with the two arrows (left-right) which is currently
displayed for all my calendars and for which I don't know the meaning.)
Clicking or hovering over the icon should then display a message like
"Malformed iCal file. This calendar may be displayed incompletely.
Please see logfiles for a detailed description."


Kind regards,
Jay