Calendar – An Intro to Ubuntu Default Calendar Application
Calendar is the default calendar application on Ubuntu. Its main purpose is to show date, day, month and year. It also has features like scheduling, making appointments, reminders, synchronizing with your online calendars and so on. Now let's start reading about Calendar below.
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(a) Calendar in its default view. This is called Month view.
(b) Calendar in Week view.
(c) Calendar showing a brief information of a schedule / event when it clicked.
(d) Calendar showing a list of calendar sources from our example.
(e) Calendar settings.
(f) Adding a new event / schedule in Calendar.
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Description
Calendar (GNOME Calendar) is the default Ubuntu calendar application. It displays calendars by date, week, month and year. It is highly integrated with Ubuntu Desktop and other GNOME applications.
Purposes
1. Displaying calendar.
2. Manage your events, appointments and schedules.
3. Create reminders for events, appointments and schedules.
Commands and Integration with Ubuntu Desktop
1. Calendar can be run using this command line:
$ gnome-calendar
2. Calendar can be displayed by its application window.
3. Calendar can also be displayed by calendar applet on the top panel.
4. Synchronization with online services like Google Calendar, Fruux can be configured via Online Accounts in the Settings.
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Supported Formats and Protocols
As a modern calendaring application, Calendar supports the following formats and protocol in order to work both online and offline, both for personal and team uses.
- .ics
- CalDav
Location on the Screen and System
1. Calendar can be accessed from Ubuntu menu -> Calendar -> click Calendar icon.
2. Calendar can also be accessed by clicking the top clock.
3. Whenever an event's due time comes, a notification will show on the notification area.
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Documentation and User Manual for Calendar
There is no built-in manual for Calendar. If you press F1 when running it, no Help window will show. However, your might want to read Evolution User Manual (old version) especially its Calendaring to get a lot of clues on how Calendar works.
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Similar Programs
Thunderbird (preinstalled) email client from Mozilla has full calendar functionality.
Evolution from GNOME.
KOrganizer from KDE.
Contributing to Calendar
Calendar is part of GNOME. So, you can contribute to Calendar just like how you contribute to other
GNOME applications. You can do many things to participate such as make a
donation to help fund the project, or help translate Calendar to your
language, or if you are a programmer, help improving Calendar's source
code, or simply reporting a bug to the project is considered a
contribution and many more. Programmatically, Calendar is written in C language with GTK libraries by using (optionally) GNOME Builder
code editor. Finally, your contribution to Calendar will benefit GNOME,
Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux projects as well. To start participating,
feel free to see Calendar's Official Webpage from References section below.
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References
GNOME Calendar Official Webpage
Calendar Section on Ubuntu Official Documentation
Evolution's Documentation (can help to understand GNOME Calendar)
Donating to GNOME Calendar Project
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