Re: [Evolution] linking to google calendar

[Francis Poulin <fpoulin uwaterloo ca>]

Hello Milan,

Thanks for your help.

Sorry that I didn't reply to Patrick's questions.  Sadly I didn't seem to get the emails, but I just found 
them in the archives so now I can answer them.

I have no idea how Evolution can read colour coding for  a website.  I can imagine that it's hard for 
evolution to read the colours, and didn't mean to imply that it should.  Just thought I would ask since it is 
a nice feature on the website.  i was probably being overly greedy and hoped that Evolution could do it as 
well.  No problem if it can't, I just thought I would ask.

I honestly don't understand the different levels of security and didn't mean to imply that Evolution was not 
secure.  Google complained but I am not surprised to hear they have different standards and I don't mean to 
imply that google should be the gold standard.

I just installed Evolution yesterday and just discovered that I am using 3.18.5.2, not 3.20.  I tried 
updating with apt-get and said that this is the latest version.  I guess I will wait til Ubuntu updates their 
software.  Hopefully soon.

I didn't mean to offend anyone and want to reiterate that I really like evolution so far and hope to learn 
how to use this so that it's just as good if not better as the web version.

Thanks,
Francis



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Francis Poulin
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Waterloo

email:           fpoulin uwaterloo ca
Web:            https://uwaterloo.ca/poulin-research-group/
Telephone:  +1 519 888 4567 x32637


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From: evolution-list [evolution-list-bounces gnome org] on behalf of Milan Crha [mcrha redhat com]
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2016 10:14 AM
To: evolution-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] linking to google calendar

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.

        Hi,
you left some questions unanswered, thus this thread is partly about
"guess and (maybe) hit", which is not good, because it only adds to the
confusion. See Patrick's first email in this thread with his questions,
all are important. That's the reason why he asks them.

As had been said, "less secure" is just a term of the Google server for
the clients which do not use OAuth2. If you want to use it, then
configure a Google account in the GNOME Online Accounts (GOA),
accessible through gnome-control-center. You only not get "more secure"
application, but also all the calendars, address books, a task list and
more (if you enable that part in GOA), as you've configured on the
server, by one hit, named as they are on the Google server, calendars
with assigned color as you have on the Google server [1] and so on.
(Well, some parts of this depend on your exact version of the Evolution
and the Evolution-Data-Server).

With Evolution 3.20.x+, a newly created Google calendar inside the
Evolution will also use OAuth2, but it will not assign "the server-side
color" on its own, unless you pick the calendar from a list of
available calendars. Your version (I hope it's not any ancient) have it
too, just right-click the Google calendar and pick "Properties", then
click the "Find Calendars" button, which is the time when the Evolution
asks for the available calendars and their properties and shows them to
the user. It shows the correct name, correct color and even the
description of the calendar, if it's available (the Google server
provides all three parts). When you pick the calendar from the loaded
list, the calendar properties will change to match those server-side.

        Bye,
        Milan

[1] It's an Apple extension, but supported by most of the CalDAV
servers; all I use for testing. It's a "calendar-color" property in an
"http://apple.com/ns/ical/" namespace.

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