Mashing Google Calendar and GNOME

1. Kalendarz Google na pulpicie Gnome : silva rerum May 17, 2007

   [...] że nie wpadłem na rozwiązanie samodzielnie, tylko ściągnąłem je z wpisu “Mashing Google Calendar and GNOME” na blogu Bryana [...]
2. Daniel van Gerpen June 10, 2007

   I tried to do follow this guide but it did not work, I could not even download the my private ical basic.ics file with wget.

   After a while I figured out the problem:

   My account name includes “@googlemail.com” as does the ical link. If I replace this with “@gmail.com” it suddenly started work
3. drale July 13, 2007

   libexec didn’t exist for me
   I tried ‘/usr/lib/evolution-webcal $url’ and just ‘evolution-webcal $url’ but it didn’t work either.
   The description of evoltuion-webcal says “It allows you to subscribe to a published calendar simply by clicking on a webcal: URL.” debian.org
   So with evolution-webcal installed I copy pasted the link into my address bar and change the ‘http:’ to ‘webcal:’ and that worked.
   I have Ubuntu Feisty
4. Bryan Clark July 23, 2007

   drale: in another article, Google Calendar, Meet Ubuntu Britt says the Ubuntu location would be: /usr/lib/evolution-webcal/evolution-webcal $GOOGLE_ICAL_URL However your solution seems to avoid the command line and probably works for any distro with the package installed, perhaps I should update the post to reflect that.
5. Philip September 1, 2007

   Sounds nice that (one-)way. Also very easy with iCal. But: How about subsricing to an ical (placed at icalx.com or other domains) using GoogleCalendar? This would be the easiest way to have both, your ical or whatsoever calendar and the online google one on a dynamic updated state.
6. mattias September 17, 2007

   hmm, I was hoping that the URL would support several schemas, not only http… I want to import from a local file, using the file:// schema, but nope, didnt work. I’ll have to test a bit more

   But thanks for the tip anyhow.
7. Andrew Roazen September 26, 2007

   Two points. Unless you configure Evolution, the calendar popup will use GMT times instead of your local time. Also, stress more that this is not a two-way solution because Evolution can’t send events to Google Calendar yet (not without installing a daemon which has to be configured for online or offline access).
8. Len February 2, 2008

   I got it working on a 64bit ubuntu, this is how I did it:

   /usr/lib64/evolution-webcal/evolution-webcal $URL

   Replace the $URL and make sure its a good url (replace %40 in the URL with @)
9. toxa April 14, 2008

   thanks
10. Tim April 30, 2008

    So anyone attempt this with Ubuntu Hardy? They have a new international clock in the Gnome Panel… I tried following Britt’s advice here http://lukewarmtapioca.com/2006/12/8/google-calendar-meet-ubuntu and the webcal library accepted it, but I did not get any dates to show in the calendar under the clock.
11. Tim April 30, 2008

    I guess it would help if I had evolution-data-server installed, as that seems to be the hook between the webcal library and the gnome panel applet.

    All is well now, thanks for the information on your site
12. MeduZa May 19, 2008

    Excellent guide, works like charm on ubuntu hardy
13. Khatia June 1, 2008

    With address clear, but where/how can i get this nice styles for calender.
14. Nathan August 24, 2008

    I used Drale’s method after failing at the command line, and it worked a treat on Ubuntu Hardy, very simple. Thanks!

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