Re: [Evolution] linking to google calendar

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 07:45 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 11:42 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 02:34 +0000, Francis Poulin wrote:
> > > I normally do google calendar at the cite you suggested, and it
> > > does
> > > have all the color.  I hoped that maybe evolution might be able
> > > to
> > > read the colour coding but maybe that's something for future
> > > versions
> > > to sort out.
> > How could Evolution possibly read the colour coding for a website? 
>
> I have no idea how Evo communicates with Google [I do not use
> google]. 
>   But if it is anything like CalDAV it **is possible** to read
> 'proprietary' colors.  Apple services expose calendar color
> preferences
> through DAV properties.  Of course I have no idea if the Google does
> this, or if any developer is interested in implementing support even
> if it does.

OK, that makes sense. In my defence, in my original reply I was really
talking about mail (and thinking about standard mail protocols),
because the OP mentioned both mail and calendars and seemed to be
asking about "lists".

poc