Orage and Google Calendar [was: ANNOUNCE: orage 4.8.3 released]

[Mișu Moldovan]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 09:19, Juha Kautto <kautto.juha at kolumbus.fi> wrote:
> orage 4.8.3 is now available for download from
>

Congratulations for a new release. I feel a bit guilty in regards to
not finishing the Romanian translation, but I couldn't thoroughly fit
Orage in my desktop setup because of lack of integration with Google
Calendar. I only maintain translations for apps that I use, and I
would love to use Orage, but the closest to Google Calendar
integration that I've got was using this one-way sync hack:
http://knowledgegeek.blogspot.com/2007/01/this-really-came-out-of-playing-with.html

I have synced my phone and tablet calendars with Google with little
trouble (in Symbian, iOS, WebOS and Android) but the only usable
solutions for a Linux desktop user that I found were: Evolution,
Thunderbird (with some extensions) and of course the Google Calendar
web interface in a supported browser. I would love a clean Xfce or
GTK-only solution to this calendaring problem and Orage seems to be
pretty close.

I'm also aware of this four year old discussion:
http://old.nabble.com/Google-Calendar-on-Orage-td16152501.html . But
I'm not sure how relevant it still is, so please share your thoughts
on the problem of syncing Orage with Google Calendar, if I'm not
asking for too much.

Thanks a lot,

-- 
mișu