Uninstalling Evolution removes calendar from clock applet

[Erlan Sergaziev]

This bug is for clock applet, but I couldn't find the project, hence filing here.

Since I use Thunderbird exclusively I wanted to get rid of the confusing Evolution mail icon from messaging indicator.
I uninstalled Evolution and its Mail Indicator.
Please note, I would like to keep messaging indicator itself for Empathy, Gwibber and Liferea.

The item is gone as expected.
However, now when I click on the clock I no longer get a nice calendar popup.

[Christian Dywan (kalikiana)]

The code literally checks for "evolution" to decide whether to display the calendar. It then displays the calendar with "evolution -c". My local workaround is a shellscript calling my actual calendar app.

I suggest the calendar is always shown, it is perfectly functional on its own. And on click it could simply launch the application associated with "text/calendar".

[Christian Dywan (kalikiana)]

This patch does what I suggested above, it uses whatever is associated with text/calendar (by default Evolution) and opens it. As a side effect startup notification will be used via GAppInfo.

[Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)]

I'm currently working on this part of the code, I need to review this patch and add it after I've finished the ecal integration.

Problem is that the ecal stuff depends on evolution existing, and i don't know of any other calendar clients which I could get the data from (non EDS users).

So this will wait for a little while

[Pavel Rojtberg (rojtberg)]

actually a calendar daemon is not needed to display the calendar widget. There is just a stupid check in the code whether evolution is installed, preventing the calendar to be displayed.

So a quick workaround is doing

"sudo touch /usr/bin/evolution"

remember to remove that empty file once there is a proper fix.

[Erlan Sergaziev (sergeant)]

Thanks Pavel,

For your tip to work, one also needs to run:

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/evolution

to make the file executable and reboot.

Of course, a proper fix would be nicer.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-datetime - 0.2.1-0ubuntu1

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indicator-datetime (0.2.1-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    * indicator-datetime-preferences crashed with SIGSEGV in
      g_utf8_normalize() (LP: #727089)
    * Uninstalling Evolution removes calendar from clock applet (LP: #691953)
    * clock doesn't update on timezone change (LP: #735445)
    * Cannot change main location (LP: #729029)
    * indicator-datetime-preferences crashed with SIGSEGV in
      g_simple_async_result_complete() (LP: #734951)
    * Time zone map looks identical when sensitive vs. insensitive (LP: #740846)
    * "Locations" window behaves like a modal dialog (LP: #740924)
    * Added location for clock menu isn't used or remembered (LP: #740930)
    * Time not displayed for added location in "Locations" window (LP: #740931)
    * "UTC" location can be removed but not re-added (LP: #740938)
    * "Locations" window bottom bar is missing a border (LP: #740941)
    * Add and Remove buttons in "Locations" window have unnecessary tooltips
      (LP: #740944)
    * No separator between "Add Event" and locations (LP: #740971)
    * indicator-datetime-preferences crashed with SIGSEGV in
      g_atomic_int_exchange_and_add() (LP: #740978)
    * inicator-datetime dosen't show corretly the time when changing from 24
      hours format to 12 hours (LP: #743394)
    * Add tooltips on the error icons
    * Fix marking to refresh as the calendar changes
    * Recycle old entries to make the refresh cleaner
    * Use day when timezone is set to 'locale'
    * Reset time when coming back from suspend (LP: #726053)
 -- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:32:40 -0500

[Ethan Bissett (draimus-deactivatedaccount)]

So I got the updated package today but when I uninstall evolution I still lose the calendar. I had evolution uninstalled when the datetime update came in. I rebooted, no calendar. I installed evolution, logged out and back in, I have a calendar. I uninstalled evolution again, no calendar.

 Is there some evolution library that needs to be left behind to have this work?

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Are you sure that you have the configuration option set to show the calendar? It is in the Date/Time settings.

[Vitaliy Kulikov (slonua)]

indicator-datetime (12.10.3daily13.03.26-0ubuntu1) still need evolution staff:

vkulikov@zztop:~$ sudo apt-get install indicator-datetime -V
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
   evolution-data-server (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   evolution-data-server-common (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   libebackend-1.2-5 (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   libebook-1.2-14 (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   libecal-1.2-15 (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   libedata-book-1.2-15 (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   libedata-cal-1.2-18 (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   libedataserver-1.2-17 (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   libtimezonemap1 (0.4.0)
   systemd-shim (2-0ubuntu1)
Suggested packages:
   evolution (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   evolution-data-server-dbg (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   evolution-data-server (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   evolution-data-server-common (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   indicator-datetime (12.10.3daily13.03.26-0ubuntu1)
   libebackend-1.2-5 (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   libebook-1.2-14 (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   libecal-1.2-15 (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   libedata-book-1.2-15 (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   libedata-cal-1.2-18 (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   libedataserver-1.2-17 (3.6.4-0ubuntu1)
   libtimezonemap1 (0.4.0)
   systemd-shim (2-0ubuntu1)

do we really need those package dependency !?