KOrganizer: Cannot add new event to calendar

AMaudio · 2016-04-14 09:45:14

Problem:

Every time I try to add a new event to my calendar in KOrganizer (integrated with Kontact), the UI acts funny and doesn't allow me to add the event at the time I want. When trying to save the event, the event doesn't get saved. No error message is reported.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to calendar in Kontact and click New Event.
2. Specify START date and time for the event in the future. Let's say 20th April at 09:00 AM.
3. KOrganiser automatically changes the start time 09:00 PM. Sometimes (not always), it also automatically changes the event's END date to 19th April (a day before the start date!)
4. You can then fiddle with the UI all you want but you won't be able to get your event to start at 09:00 AM. You give up and say, OK, I'll make my event to start on 09:00 PM and end on 10:00 PM on 20th April and then I'll just edit the entry after saving with the correct end and start times. So, you click OK to save the event, but then the event doesn't get added to the calendar at all, not even at 9pm. No error message or complaint is reported by the software.

I have several calendars in KOrganizer: the actual Personal Calendar in KOrganizer and several Google calendars. This behaviour happens in all calendars.

However, sometimes (not always), when adding an event to a Google calendar, if you open the calendar in your browser (on Google's site), you'll see that the event does get saved on the correct date (20th April) but with a start time of 0:00 and an end time of 0:00 (i.e. you get an event of no duration at midnight). This you can edit in Google calendar and when you do, then it will appear as well in KOrganizer (after it has refreshed the Google calendar).

Anyway, I've been experiencing this problem for a few months and I just thought it would be a matter of time that the developers will also experience it and fix it in an update. But that hasn't happened. Is anybody else experiencing this?

Buddlespit · 2016-04-14 10:41:13

I see it only works properly if I use my gmail account. If I use akonadi resources, it works just as you describe. Have you filed a bug report?

AMaudio · 2016-04-14 10:48:59

No I haven't. Wanted to make sure this wasn't just me going crazy or some weird settings making my system go crazy. I guess I can file the bug at https://bugs.kde.org/ correct?

Buddlespit · 2016-04-14 10:56:56

AMaudio wrote:

No I haven't. Wanted to make sure this wasn't just me going crazy or some weird settings making my system go crazy. I guess I can file the bug at https://bugs.kde.org/ correct?

Personally, I would start at https://bugs.archlinux.org/ and let arojas kick you up to the KDE bug site if it's warranted.

arojas · 2016-04-14 11:17:58

Upstream, please. And FWIW, no issues here with a caldav account and a Google account.

AMaudio · 2016-04-14 13:09:37

I'm using KOrganizer version 5.1.3. within Kontact.

Just submitted a bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361764

Should I mark this thread here as SOLVED as a bug report is now with the KDE devs?

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#1 2016-04-14 09:45:14

KOrganizer: Cannot add new event to calendar

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Re: KOrganizer: Cannot add new event to calendar

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#4 2016-04-14 10:56:56

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#5 2016-04-14 11:17:58

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