Bug#761822: gnome-online-accounts: Evolution Google-calendar support requires extra package

[Laurent Bigonville]

bts tag 761822 + unreproducible moreinfo
thanks

On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:02:21 +0000 Vinothan Darael Shankar
<darael at tpchq.org> wrote:

> Gnome-online-accounts appears, by default, to set up a Google account
> to have its calendar displayed in Evolution.  However, on a fresh
> install, when one tries to open a GOA Google calendar, Evolution
> times out.  This happens until the user installs the evolution-webcal
> package, but the need to do so is not noted anywhere.
> 
> Either GOA should hide the "enable calendar" option for Google
> accounts if evolution-webcal is not installed, or it should depend on
> - or at least Recommend - evolution-webcal.
> 
> This is presumably /also/ a bug in Evolution, in that Evolution shows
> the possibility of connecting to a Google Calendar when it doesn't
> have the required plugin to do so, and that its error message is
> inaccurate.
> 
> To summarise:
> 
> Expected outcome: freshly-configured google account on new install
> has calendar shown in Evolution
> 
> Actual outcome: calendar is listed but appears to time out rather
> than fetch events.
> 
> Steps to reproduce: remove evolution-webcal if installed (noting that
> this causes no dependency issues), configure a Google Account through
> GOA, observe that the GOA calendar in Evolution appears to time out.
> 
> Steps to work around: install evolution-webcal and notice that Google
> Calendars immediately work in Evolution.

I actually cannot reproduce this, evolution-webcal is not installed on
my machine here and the calendars are properly synced.

In addition it seems that evolution-webcal is not maintained upstream
since quite sometimes.

Can you still reproduce this?

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville