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Google offers this, and synchronizing is easy, but it's not a response to the topic, problems with Linux, because anyone on any platform can use a browser and a

by lutusp 12y ago

Google offers this, and synchronizing is easy, but it's not a response to the topic, problems with Linux, because anyone on any platform can use a browser and access the various Google services in the wish-list.

tormeh 12y ago
Can you mail a calendar appointment to a team member? Because that's pretty handy.
- lutusp 12y ago
  Yes, and not just via email -- through an invitation mechanism in the calendar app a scheduled event can be linked to another Google user. I haven't used the calendar app much, but this feature appears to work.
- mjevans 12y ago
  Sort of. You can invite others to a calendar event. However it doesn't inter-operate well with the MS Exchange monoculture, largely because Microsoft, like with filesystems, hasn't yet met a competing standard that they would be willing to support natively. (Example, just look at the horrid IMAP support in practically every version of Outlook. I /think/ Outlook 2010 is the closest so far and it's still got tiny hiccups.)
- allegory 12y ago
  Not if they want to respond on android - I doesn't always work which is a PITA.
  - lutusp 12y ago
    If I run Chrome on Android, I can sync calendars just as though the Android device was a laptop. We might be speaking about different things.
    - allegory 12y ago
      Possibly. I can't always accept invitations via Google mail client on android and I can't accept an ics file and add it to my Google calendar. Not can I open other calendars (shared) because calendar crashes (moto g, KitKat, Google calendar client, not built in). Also I get two reminders for everything. Very clunky.
      - lutusp 12y ago
        That's especially embarrassing since both ends of the circuit are Google products. Maybe we need another universal communication standard: http://xkcd.com/927/ http://xkcd.com/927/ :)

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Google offers this, and synchronizing is easy, but it's not a response to the topic, problems with Linux, because anyone on any platform can use a browser and a

by lutusp 12y ago

tormeh 12y ago
Can you mail a calendar appointment to a team member? Because that's pretty handy.
- lutusp 12y ago
  Yes, and not just via email -- through an invitation mechanism in the calendar app a scheduled event can be linked to another Google user. I haven't used the calendar app much, but this feature appears to work.
- mjevans 12y ago
  Sort of. You can invite others to a calendar event. However it doesn't inter-operate well with the MS Exchange monoculture, largely because Microsoft, like with filesystems, hasn't yet met a competing standard that they would be willing to support natively. (Example, just look at the horrid IMAP support in practically every version of Outlook. I /think/ Outlook 2010 is the closest so far and it's still got tiny hiccups.)
- allegory 12y ago
  Not if they want to respond on android - I doesn't always work which is a PITA.
  - lutusp 12y ago
    If I run Chrome on Android, I can sync calendars just as though the Android device was a laptop. We might be speaking about different things.
    - allegory 12y ago
      Possibly. I can't always accept invitations via Google mail client on android and I can't accept an ics file and add it to my Google calendar. Not can I open other calendars (shared) because calendar crashes (moto g, KitKat, Google calendar client, not built in). Also I get two reminders for everything. Very clunky.
      - lutusp 12y ago
        That's especially embarrassing since both ends of the circuit are Google products. Maybe we need another universal communication standard: http://xkcd.com/927/ http://xkcd.com/927/ :)