Evolution Calendar Tip

[Arthur H. Johnson II]

Wicked cool find!  Now if they can only get the Baseball schedule on
line, I'd be all set ;)

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 19:07 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> As everyone knows, Ubuntu includes the Evolution email/calendar client.
> Perhaps many simply ignore the email client part (I do for the most
> part, I use SeaMonkey, except when testing or for setting up my wife's
> email & I like it more each time I do something on it), and maybe
> occasionally only use the calendar client that sits in the Gnome Panel
> telling you the date & time.
> 
> Anyway, I wanted to set up the calendar so that it would show US
> holidays. Nothing in the help section so I did a bit of Google'ing &
> found the following thread at linuxquestions.org:
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=313847
> <quote>
>  I know of one possibility
> add a new "Web Calender" with the following address
> 
> webcal://ical.mac.com/ical/UK32Holidays.ics
> 
> for UK holidays. For US holidays and other calenders check out:
> 
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/library/
> 
> Evolution supports the ICS format.
> 
> Good luck.
> </quote>
> 
> I found that using that advise & linking to the specific URL in:
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/library/
> the US holidays (including Daylight Savings Time announcements) are
> easily added.
> 
> In Evolution:
> 
> - File|New|Calendar
>   - Type: On The Web
>    - Name: whatever you want - perhaps "Holidays"
>     - URL: webcal:// [1]
>      - OK
> In the left Calendar panel:
> 
> - Select: On the Web
>  - Tick the box for your new "Holidays" calendar & it will also be
> available in your "On This Computer" Personal calendar as well.
> 
> [1] Right click on the particular calendar that you are interested in
> can copy the URL - in my case it was the US Holidays, so right clicking
> produces: webcal://ical.mac.com/ical/US32Holidays.ics
> Past that into the Evolution URL box & off you go. Note: Clicking on
> "more" at the end of the holiday list provides
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/library/holidays.html which
> provides many other world holidays that can be added.
> 
> So... If that Date/Time calendar button is going to sit in your Gnome
> tray anyway, you might want to put it to some use & add some features to
> it. With this added, even if you don't want to use the full Evolution
> calendar features, the Gnome panel standard month calendar dropdown when
> you click on the day/date button box will now bold dates that have
> holidays.
> 
> HTH
> 
> G. Lee
> 
>