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Heute geht hier auch mal "ein Türchen" auf - die Rostocker #stadtgestalten () haben auch einen #Webcal / Digitalen Kalender der sich in 3 Schritten easy z.B. in #Thunderbird integrieren lässt. Ein Traum!

Näheres hier:
https://stadtgestalten.org/stadt/events/export

#Rostock #Veranstaltungen

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I've been experimenting with #WebCAL subscription on #Android and the difficulties encountered clearly show how much power the owners of the devices in our pockets have.

Such a simple operation like "following" peers is made hard for no technical reason: stock apps do not support that, you have to install something external.

As of today what you need is: install #ICSx5 to subscribe and #ETAR to also see the URL field of the events.

Do you know any simpler way ?

Part 1 of my #GNOMECalendar #webcal subscriptions #UX bugfixing trilogy has been merged today! No more duplicate calendars created by accident when adding a web calendar URL 🥳 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/417

#GNOME #opensource

Android's lack of built-in CalDAV, CardDAV, and WebCAL support is really annoying  

I can't imagine it's for any reason other than Google wanting people to use their Google account for Contacts and Calendar instead.

WebCAL is a great example of it. It's not common for people to subscribe to WebCAL calendars, even though it'd be an insanely easy way to share events with people and have it update on the fly if something changes. I think a big reason for its lack of popularity is because Android makes it so difficult. If you want to add a calendar subscription, you either need to grab a computer, go to calendar.google.com, + a new calendar, from URL, then paste in a link to the iCal file, or you need to pay $2 for ICSx5 (you can get it for free on FDroid but most people aren't going to do that).

Meanwhile on iOS, to subscribe to a calendar you just click the WebCAL link for the calendar.  Like ???

#Android #Google #iPhone #iOS #CardDAV #CalDAV #WebCAL

"No, I’m sorry, Thunderbird’s calendar isn’t a good calendar. It’s dialog boxes from 1998 coming up with that “donk!” sound, not being dismissable immediately, and also coming up twice for no reason, or telling you that you modified the event when you didn’t"

@nadim writes about the (bad) state of calendar software on desktop.

#thunderbird #calendar #linux #foss #webcal #jmap

It is wild that I'm potentially solving a higgs-bugson in #GNOMECalendar's handling of some broken #CalDAV / #Webcal calendar providers (for servers using hardcore firewalling rules), a 6-years mystery… with a 1-liner fix that just sets a User-Agent string for #GNOME Calendar's #libsoup to identify itself when doing the initial URL validity check 🤨️

Thanks to @s3phy's ingenious network/HTTP troubleshooting!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/424

Dear colleagues:
Calendar events can sit in an *.ics file, fine; I can create one and it works. However, I want to generate a clickable link on a website, possibly using the `webcal:` protocol, including the event als ical *string* – not linking to an *.ics file. Is this possible at all?
It would be so much easier to create "add to my calendar" buttons this way.
Thanking you for your thoughts in advance!

#iCalendar #webCal

@blinry und ich haben gestern etwas gebastelt, was die Veranstaltungs-Infos einer lokalen Gruppe, deren Website ich verwalte, im iCal-Format zugänglich machen soll.

Nun haben ein paar Leute ausprobiert, diesen Kalender zu abonnieren. Mit manchen Clients klappt es, mit anderen nicht. Aber da, wo es nicht klappt, gibts auch keine nützlichen Fehlermeldungen oder sowas... :/

Und nun...? Wie debuggt man denn sowas? O.o

#iCalendar #webCal