Calendar frustration

[Neal ManBear]

Have you tried claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin? Sunbird?

[craesz]

I have not tried claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin or Sunbird. The last time I looked at Sunbird it seemed that it worked the exact same as Lightning, am I wrong? What would the plugin work with? Thunderbird?

[Neal ManBear]

I have not tried claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin or Sunbird. The last time I looked at Sunbird it seemed that it worked the exact same as Lightning, am I wrong? What would the plugin work with? Thunderbird?

The claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin works with claws mail.

[craesz]

I thought that would be the case. I avoided Sunbird because I already use Lightning.... I really like the way KOrganizer looks but the printing is bad and I don't like Kmail. I use Thunderbird with Lightning... I really think the interface that KOrganizer has (similar to Evolution) is better than Thunderbird and I think at this point I am stuck due to archiving, etc. I'm not sure another email program (claws) is the answer. I was hoping for a standalone that could access the Google calendars and print it correctly... maybe even with a download to ics format... at this point I don't know.

[Neal ManBear]

I'm out of ideas now.

[knome]

@ craesz

Just for your information, I use claws mail so I've experimented with importing a Google Calendar.

It works but I'm afraid it won't give you what you are looking for - the print out it offers is an event list view and not a calendar view.

Re my suggestion about using a Google Document Spreadsheet - I meant that you would have to migrate to using a Spreadsheet Calendar instead of using Google Calendar - Google has fixed it so that it isn't easy to import a Calendar into a Spreadsheet 

My next, and probably last rubbish suggestion, is - Does your cellphone provider offer you a webmail based service other than GMail? There's a small possibility that if it does there may be a calendar application/add-on available in the webmail service.

 

[craesz]

appreciate the effort but I think I'm stuck..... what a pain

[The Chief]

I thought that would be the case. I avoided Sunbird because I already use Lightning.... I really like the way KOrganizer looks but the printing is bad and I don't like Kmail. I use Thunderbird with Lightning... I really think the interface that KOrganizer has (similar to Evolution) is better than Thunderbird and I think at this point I am stuck due to archiving, etc. I'm not sure another email program (claws) is the answer. I was hoping for a standalone that could access the Google calendars and print it correctly... maybe even with a download to ics format... at this point I don't know.

Google itself says:

5. Sync with your desktop applications

Access your calendar however and whenever you want by syncing events with Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal and Mozilla Sunbird.

And Sunbird has plenty of printing options (but I suspect Lightning is pretty similar).