Calendar Indicator Displays Google Calendar Events On The Ubuntu Panel (Without Evolution)

Calendar Indicator is a new tool to display your Google Calendar events on the Ubuntu / Unity panel.

You can already do that with Evolution and Indicator DateTime, but there are some differences: firstly, the obvious: you don't need Evolution to use Calendar Indicator. And secondly, Calendar Indicator displays the next 10 upcoming Google Calendar events at once, so you don't have to scroll through dates to see your Google Calendar events.

The indicator uses a nice icon with the current day, which is available for both light and dark themes (configurable in the Calendar Indicator preferences).

If you want to see more than the next 10 events, select "Show Calendar" and a calendar window will pop up. Selecting a date will display the event(s) for that day in a tooltip. Using this calendar, you can see all the previous and future events.

Calendar Indicator is a new application, so there are still features missing: you can't select the calendar used, you can't change the number of upcoming Google Calendar events in the indicator menu and so on. But these along with an option to create or delete events and more are planned for future Calendar Indicator versions.

Install Calendar Indicator in Ubuntu

Calendar Indicator is available for Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 in the Atareao PPA. To add the PPA and install it, use the commands below in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install calendar-indicator

Once installed, start it, enter your username and password (they will be saved in GNOME Keyring, so your password is safe), select the update interval and if Calendar Indicator should autostart and that's it.

If you encounter bugs, report them @ Launchpad.

Calendar Indicator was created by Lorenzo, who's also behind My Weather Indicator, CryptFolder Indicator, Google Reader Indicator, Touchpad indicator and others. Check out his blog (in Spanish) @ atareao.es

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How To Integrate Google Calendar With Unity / GNOME Shell Through Evolution

Back when we've posted about integrating Google Calendar with GNOME Shell (without Evolution), some of you didn't know how to do this with Evolution. So here is how to set up Evolution to display Google Calendar events in the Unity / GNOME Shell calendar.

1. Install Evolution. For Ubuntu, use the following command:

sudo apt-get install evolution

2. You can directly launch the Evolution calendar using the following command:

evolution -c calendar

Then go to New > Calendar (you can also select File > New > Calendar), select "Google" from the drop-down. Here, enter a name for the calendar and your Google username:

If Google doesn't show up in the drop-down, see this work-around.

You can also click the "Retrieve list" button to get a list of your calendars and select one of them. Then tweak the rest of the settings to whatever you want (like "Show reminders", refresh time, etc.) and click "Apply".

You'll then be asked to enter your password and after that, you're done.

3. If you use GNOME Shell, there's nothing else you need to do. For Unity, you'll have to log out and log back in or restart Unity. Please note that it takes a few seconds after you click the clock until your Google Calendar events show up (it seems to take longer for GNOME Shell).

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