KDE Event Calendar

I posted this to the main forum a year ago, and it still works!!

If you try to install a plasmoid called KDE Event Calendar, hoping to display your Google Calendar when clicking on it, you will be disappointed. Google rejects it. However, someone came up with a fix, to do with changes in Google's OAuth. Sadly, the changes have not been incorporated by the original author, and the instructions from the guy that fixed it are wrong because he forgot to change the instructions so that his fix is installed, so his instructions also fail because they install the unfixed version.

The plasmoid displays the Time and Date on your panel, and on clicking on it, displays a calendar, along with a list of your (Google) appointments, birthdays, etc. And the weather forecast! Installing it is actually very easy, but before you do, you need to install git and golang using synaptic.

You open a terminal (normal user, not root) and type in each of these lines in turn:

git clone https://github.com/kanocz/plasma-applet-eventcalendar.git eventcalendar
cd eventcalendar
sh ./install

A folder will be created in ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/ called org.kde.plasma.eventcalendar. If you want the plasmoid to be available to all users on your system, simply move that folder to /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/. You will also have a folder called eventcalendar in your home folder, which it will be safe to delete.

What is this davecs? A package request or just a personal settings for your own plasma setup?

It's something kde users can try for themselves if they wish. Maybe it could have gone under Tips& Tricks but it's obviously only good for KDE. It could be packaged I guess, once done you don't need git or golang any more, but it wasn't a request.