Uninstalling Evolution removes calendar from clock applet

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".

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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 !?