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 ------------------ Francis Poulin Associate Professor Department of Applied Mathematics University of Waterloo email: fpou...@uwaterloo.ca Web: https://uwaterloo.ca/poulin-research-group/ Telephone: +1 519 888 4567 x32637 ________________________________________ From: evolution-list [evolution-list-boun...@gnome.org] on behalf of Milan Crha [mc...@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. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
