Clock applet doesn't load when Google Calendar is used in Evolution

Hi Andrew
Thanks for your bug report and work on it, as you point out this is already know and linked to upstream, there's not much we can do here, since all the work should be done upstream, maybe you'll want to comment there.

Thanks

Thanks Basilio,
I know, I already commented upstream. I created this bug just to satisfy the
curiosity of a few Ubuntu users who were asking about this behavior.

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For me, the clock applet does load, but clicking it does not open the calendar view (+ additional world clock), but crashes gnome-panel instead.

Same here with Clock 2.22.1.3 - it loads, but clicking it hangs gnome-panel.

one task is enough for now.

Is it possible to disable the Evolution-Google Calendar import feature as long as it causes problems with the clock? Reasons:

- If the clock applet is frozen the user can't figure out what's the error. If s/he is a beginner s/he can't even start a terminal or a system monitor because the panel and the system-wide hotkeys are gone. It took me some time to find it in launchpad, that the error is connected with google calendar. Why should the average user know, that the google calendar has some connection with the weather or the clock?

- Anyway the google calendar integration does not work properly ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/183846 ), it shows only a few events not all, so this feature is far from ready.

I think it does not worth to have the clock (and the whole panel) broken because of an incomplete not too important feature.

I think it's a really good suggestion.
Google calendar features seems not ready yet. So why not remove this case of disappointment for final users ?!

David Piry wrote:
> I think it's a really good suggestion.
> Google calendar features seems not ready yet. So why not remove this
> case of disappointment for final users ?!

Maybe this would be the best. For people using Google calendar, note
that it is still possible (at least on my computer) to add it as a
normal web calendar. As URL I use the "Private Adress" (iCal) given
under the respective "Calendar Details" in Google's settings. This
won't allow editing or adding new appointments into Google Calendar
but at least they show up in the calendar view in the GNOME panel
without freezing it.

Matthias

I think solving the problem instead of hiding it is always better. Upstream
is working on this, let them do it.

Also, if a user has been able to configure a google calendar in evolution,
he probably knows what he's doing. I don't think we should underestimate
him.

2008/5/13 Matthias Rosenkranz <email address hidden>:

> David Piry wrote:
> > I think it's a really good suggestion.
> > Google calendar features seems not ready yet. So why not remove this
> > case of disappointment for final users ?!
>
> Maybe this would be the best. For people using Google calendar, note
> that it is still possible (at least on my computer) to add it as a
> normal web calendar. As URL I use the "Private Adress" (iCal) given
> under the respective "Calendar Details" in Google's settings. This
> won't allow editing or adding new appointments into Google Calendar
> but at least they show up in the calendar view in the GNOME panel
> without freezing it.
>
> Matthias
>
> --
> Clock applet doesn't load when Google Calendar is used in Evolution
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194505
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> of the bug.
>

> if a user has been able to configure a google calendar in evolution,
> he probably knows what he's doing.

It's really really simple to configure a google calendar !
He knows what he's doing if he reads bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu like us ...

+1
I'm back to using the single Web Calendar function (without the possibility to edit Google Calendars from Evolution) as Matthias explains until a proper fix is published.

Am I dreaming or is this all meaningless anyway because we lost the "Appointments" control on the unfolded calendar widget? I can only see bold days, but there no longer seems to be any way to figure out why those days are bold. If you cannot view your appointments with the calender applet anyway, why bother and communicate with a buggy evolution server?

Suffer the same ;(

I find that simply removing the Google Calendar from Evolution and creating a new Google Calendar solves the problem for me and saves my calendar applet functionality. This bug just started this evening for me. I updated Evolution this morning (June 16th).

Is it gonna be fixed ever? ;(

Just to confirm that this problem still exists on Fedora 9 (fully up to date with Evolution 2.22.2).

+1

Please do not re-confirm the bugs if they're set as Triaged and also have an upstream task, it will only generate a lot of bugmail noise that for people who should take care of bugs and read thousands of them daily will only make their job harder, please only comment on this ones if you have a new useful information that is not already on the report otherwise please don't do it, thanks.

Was patched upstream, any change if getting this fix in Hardy?

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:44, Mike Basinger <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Was patched upstream, any change if getting this fix in Hardy?

It's not fixed in GNOME yet; the patch was just submitted, but has not been
reviewed or committed yet, right?

Yes Andrew, you're right, the patch that was submitted upstream needs to be reviewed and then committed, after that the bug will be marked as fixed and then the ubuntu developers can evaluate if the fix can be included in hardy or not. thanks.

the issue has been fixed upstream now

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This bug was fixed in the package gnome-panel - 1:2.23.5-0ubuntu1

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gnome-panel (1:2.23.5-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Panel
    - Use new icon name for shutdown
    - Continue code cleanup
    - Fix crash when editing launcher and setting an empty name
    - Fix compiler warnings
    - Fix some gconf values in the default layout (lp: #39856)
    libpanel-applet
    - Fix compiler warnings
    Clock Applet
    - When opening the "set time" window, also set the day on the calendar
    so that the user doesn't accidently set a time in the past
    - Show groupwise and exchange appointments in the calendar
    - Load calendars asynchronously (lp: #194505)
    - Fix compiler warnings
    - Use the right color for tasks and appointments (lp: #173413)
    - Fix leak and correctly handle ical memory
    Notification Area Applet
    - Fix compiler warnings
    Show Desktop Applet
    - Use "user-desktop" icon name
    Wnck Applets
    - Fix compiler warnings
  * debian/control.in:
    - don't use a version build-depends on scrollkeeper
  * debian/patches/08_clock_applet_event.patch:
    - dropped, the bug should be fixed in the new version
  * debian/patches/10_appointment_colors.patch:
    - dropped, the change is in the new version
  * debian/patches/18_clock_capplet_use_time_admin.patch:
    - comment this change in the series and use the upstream version now

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:23:21 +0200

What about hardy? that gnome-panel version is available for intrepid only

Just to echo eNz1m3 as I've just run into this very same bug. Does Hardy not get updates for bugs like this. It is meant to be a LTS system and this is a breaking the desktop bug.

Hi guys,
 I dunno what the policy is but most probably it would enter in the backports repository but somebody may have to request for the same. (I dunno if this is done automatically or somebody has to review the same.)

Although I do agree with the above posters.

Hi there,

pardon me if this bug is already closed, but I have exactly the same one running Ubuntu 10.10.
I never had this before neither in 10.04 nor some earlier release.
Any way how to fix this?

hi paulinchen

I have the same issue on 10.10 again, should we open a new bug?

Same issue. Ubuntu 10.10