I just use Google at home, at work, and errr at play :) Wife (a similar real person not a geek) copes very well with Google and an Android phone with shared calendars.<br>Using a traditional fat client application in this day and age is extremely outdated. Embrace the cloud and the browser.<div>
<br></div><div>Colin</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 July 2012 16:47, Mike Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@tandem.f9.co.uk" target="_blank">mike@tandem.f9.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
OK so here's a summary of what I want: A calendar shared with my<br>
partner using a GUI client on our Fedora desktop which I can also access<br>
and update from my Android phone. In addition I'd like email access.<br>
<br>
Now the long version:<br>
<br>
I used to use Thunderbird as a mail reader. (We have to have a GUI<br>
before the CLI people pipe up. My partner is a Real Person not a Geek.<br>
I used to use fetchmail to get our email down from our ISP to Linux and<br>
Thunderbird to get it from the mbox. We also shared calendars which<br>
was pointed to .ics files in a shared directory on our machine.<br>
<br>
Thunderbird then let us down by hitting a bug whereby it is forever<br>
messing up its index and displaying spurious messages with a date of<br>
1970. The spurious messages weren't a problem but when I missed some<br>
important emails because it appended them with junk emails and then<br>
automatically removed them I lost my temper. Out with Thunderbird.<br>
<br>
To protect myself others in my immediate proximity I changed to using<br>
IMAP rather than POP at my ISP so that the emails stay there nice and<br>
safely. I then set up Evolution, which is supposedly nicely integrated<br>
with Gnome. It was also able to work with the shared .ics files.<br>
<br>
Then the arrival last week of said Android phone. Simplest solution<br>
seemed to be to move the calendar to google. (Momentary shudder about<br>
selling my soul and making my personal life details available to<br>
google.) I added a calendar to my google account, created a google<br>
account for my partner, gave each other access to them. Checked that I<br>
could see them from the phone. Then set up evolution for each of us to<br>
access the calendars there. Great. Then I try to add an event to the<br>
calendar from evolution and get an error message about "No backend<br>
factory for 'google' of 'VEVENT'" I find various comment on the forums<br>
about google having broken their own API, promises of a fix somewhere<br>
along the line but I've updated and it's not fixed, I've taken the<br>
latest from the updates-testing repo - no better.<br>
<br>
Soooo.... which email/calendar client to use and how to share the<br>
calendar data. Anyone tried WebDAV, CalDAV in combination with Android?<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
<br>
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