The right way use Calendars on Aurora

Bluefin
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I’ve just started daily driving Aurora for work and it’s perfect for what I need; it has required very little effort to get up and running. :slight_smile: However I have one thing I’m trying to figure out.

On MacOS I had a little widget like this (GitHub - artisticat1/gnome-next-up: Show your next calendar event in the status bar) to help my ADHD brain be on time for meetings. I assume the best way to build something like that would be to hook into whatever generic calendar APIs Plasma has, which brings me onto my next question.

My company uses Google Workspace for its productivity suite, but if I build something I don’t want it to be specific to Google. I know Gnome has integrations to easily integrate your Google Calendar into the desktop, but nothing that ships with Aurora (or is available via Flatpak) that I’ve found gives the same experience. Maybe GitHub - KDE/kalendar: A calendar application using Akonadi to sync with external services (Nextcloud, GMail, ...) is what I want, but how do I get it on universal blue?

Any ideas? Sorry for the slightly incoherent train of thought.

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To answer my own question I think the best way right now is to layer Kalendar with rpm-ostree and set about learning how to build a Plasma Widget which integrates with the PIM APIs. dives down a rabbit hole

If there’s a better way than layering I’m happy to hear it!

edit: I did the layering and even with Akonadi seemingly started fine I hit this pretty old error when starting Kalendar. :frowning: 475069 – Kalendar crashes

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