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On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:35:39PM -0500, Luke A. Kanies wrote: > Calendaring just plain falls down on functionality. Apparently. The two > features I need are some kind calendar syncronizing capability and the > ability to email meeting notices so I can send them to my phone. There is > a calander syncronizing protocol (ical) but Evolution only supports it via > email, not via an automated mechanism like WebDAV (like Apple's stupidly > named iCal), so I can't easily synchronize between my Mac and my linux > box. That part sucks. Yeah. There's movement towards supporting that, but it'll probably be the 2.1 timeframe. > But Evolution also can't email notices. Or can it? It's there as an > option, but it's greyed out. Why? I've no idea; why add it but not make > it available? I can't figure it out, but apparently it's fixed in 1.5, > which (of course) debian doesn't have. So apparently I could do what I > want, except I can't for some reason. Mailing notices certainly used to work, and I'd be surprised if it's entirely broken in 1.4 since that's one of their selling points. 1.5 is in Debian if you add an experimental sources line. > Even better, though, is how email functionality falls on its face. > Actually, it might not; I don't know. Every time I try to send an email, > I type something into the "To:" header box, and it pops up with a list of > potential matches. I have found nothing other than 'pkill -9 evolution' > that can get rid of that box. I select the email I want and hit return, > or double click, or triple click, or dance, or whatever the hell I > want, and nothing at all happens. Even better, this is (somehow) a > globally modal dialig (you know, like Mozilla always does that pisses you > off so much?), which means that until it goes away I can't focus on any > other windows. If you have accessibility functionality switched on, switch it off. Evolution sucks in that respect in quite terrifying ways. Also bear in mind that the only way you're likely to be running that version of Evolution is in Debian unstable, which means there's a high probability that any breakage isn't Evolution's fault. > Anyone got any linux calendaring recommendations? Yeah. A combination of anything that uses flat text files and cvs. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxx.xxxx.xxx
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