iceowl has finally stopped working in debian sid (mozilla sunbird was discontinued upstream a long time ago). does anyone know of a simple stand-alone calendar program that can sync with google calendar? mostly, i just want something where i can enter appointments etc into the calendar on my desktop and have them turn up on my phone and tablet. and vice-versa. things that aren't suitable: 1. I don't want to use the web-based google calendar because i don't want to leave a browser logged in to google apps all the time. 2. I already know about icedove and the lightning extension. As a last resort, it will do (and it is almost certainly what i'll use until i find something else) but i just want a standalone calendar program - I don't want it messing with my mail too. iceowl was the standalone calendar-only version of icedove+lightning. it worked exactly as i wanted it to, and the UI was more than adequate for my purposes. 3. Anything that depends on gnome shell or requires a specific desktop environment. I use a variety of apps from gnome, xfce, kde, and others but i have no intention of becoming dependant on any one of them, otherwise i'd have to completely change my entire desktop environment after every major release when gnome/kde/whoever perpetrates their next we-know-what's-best-for-you idiocy. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
On 01/06/13 17:42, Craig Sanders wrote:
iceowl has finally stopped working in debian sid (mozilla sunbird was discontinued upstream a long time ago).
Iceowl still works for me. I run debian testing with some packages cherry picked out of sid and sometimes experimental. At the moment I have icedove 17.0.5-2 iceowl 1.9-3 iceowl-extension 17.0.5-2 calendar-google-provider 17.0.5-2 and all is working well. I'm quite dependent on it now so I hope support isn't about to be dropped? Geoff
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 05:54:42PM +1000, Geoff D'Arcy wrote:
On 01/06/13 17:42, Craig Sanders wrote:
iceowl has finally stopped working in debian sid (mozilla sunbird was discontinued upstream a long time ago).
Iceowl still works for me. I run debian testing with some packages cherry picked out of sid and sometimes experimental. At the moment I have
icedove 17.0.5-2 iceowl 1.9-3 iceowl-extension 17.0.5-2 calendar-google-provider 17.0.5-2
have you restarted iceowl since you upgraded to these versions? i've got all those (and calendar-timezones 17.0.5-2 too). mine was working fine until i restarted iceowl today. that's the bad news. the good news is that it looks like the problem was something in my default profile under ~/.mozilla/iceowl - i created a new profile, added my google calendar and it started working again. up until then, I was getting error messages about timezone 1.2011n being incompatible with the current version of iceowl. i lost my old local calendar with the new profile, but i don't care (it only had ancient events from before i started using google cal). i really only want it for syncing google calendar with my android phone & tablet. i'm still kind of surprised that there doesn't seem to be another standalone caldav client app around.
I'm quite dependent on it now so I hope support isn't about to be dropped?
it's been dropped for ages. the upstream mozilla sunbird project is dead, and debian seems ambivalent about it. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668039 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665653 OTOH, the iceowl package maintainer seems happy enough to keep it as an experimental and unstable only package (i.e. won't be in testing or in the next stable and probably not any future stable release) craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #261: The Usenet news is out of date
On 01/06/13 19:14, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 05:54:42PM +1000, Geoff D'Arcy wrote:
On 01/06/13 17:42, Craig Sanders wrote:
iceowl has finally stopped working in debian sid (mozilla sunbird was discontinued upstream a long time ago).
Iceowl still works for me. I run debian testing with some packages cherry picked out of sid and sometimes experimental. At the moment I have
icedove 17.0.5-2 iceowl 1.9-3 iceowl-extension 17.0.5-2 calendar-google-provider 17.0.5-2
have you restarted iceowl since you upgraded to these versions?
Yes, many times. When I did initially install it took a bit of fiddling to get all the needed packages and versions so everything worked. At the time I was pulling the packages from experimental and sid.
i've got all those (and calendar-timezones 17.0.5-2 too).
Yep, I should have included that, it is needed.
it's been dropped for ages. the upstream mozilla sunbird project is dead, and debian seems ambivalent about it.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668039 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665653
OTOH, the iceowl package maintainer seems happy enough to keep it as an experimental and unstable only package (i.e. won't be in testing or in the next stable and probably not any future stable release)
Ouch, not what I wanted to hear. I'll have to keep and eye open for a replacement. Geoff
Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
does anyone know of a simple stand-alone calendar program that can sync with google calendar?
mostly, i just want something where i can enter appointments etc into the calendar on my desktop and have them turn up on my phone and tablet. and vice-versa.
If you are an Emacs user, you could try Emacs diary, which can import/export icalendar format as supported by Google and others. I use Remind for this purpose, but I don't need to associate it with another calendar, hence its lack of in-built icalendar support doesn't stand in my way. I am reasonably confident that there are scripts available to convert in both directions though. Another possibility is the googlecl package, which includes some calendar support (I know it isn't quite what you want however).
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