Display gnome calendar events

[rambip]

Hey !
I really love the effort you're putting in creating these tools. The widget looks really nice, but it is not that useful.
I use gnome-calendar (I configured the app to open it when I click on the button). gnome-calendar uses the evolution system to provide the information.

It is not well documented, but you can access the events in this way:

import gi

gi.require_version("EDataServer", "1.2")
gi.require_version("ECal", "2.0")
from gi.repository import EDataServer, ECal
from datetime import datetime

registry = EDataServer.SourceRegistry.new_sync(None)
sources = registry.list_sources(EDataServer.SOURCE_EXTENSION_CALENDAR)

now = datetime.now()

for source in sources:
    if not source.get_enabled():
        continue

    print(f"Calendar: {source.get_display_name()}")

    client = ECal.Client.connect_sync(source, ECal.ClientSourceType.EVENTS, 1, None)
    success, icalstrings = client.get_object_list_as_comps_sync("", None)

    if success:
        for comp in icalstrings:
            summary = comp.get_summary()
            dtstart = comp.get_dtstart()  # Returns ECalComponentDateTime

            if dtstart:
                icaltime = dtstart.get_value()  # Extract the ICalTime

                if icaltime:
                    event_date = datetime(
                        icaltime.get_year(),
                        icaltime.get_month(),
                        icaltime.get_day(),
                        icaltime.get_hour(),
                        icaltime.get_minute(),
                    )

                    if event_date > now:
                        title = summary.get_value() if summary else "(no title)"
                        print(f"  {event_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')} - {title}")

(see here for the generated python docs)

It would be so useful to have them directly display in the calendar !
If I have time, I will contribute with a PR, but I'm not sure I will. If it seems like something valuable, add it ! I really think gnome calendar and ml4w fit nicely together.

[mylinuxforwork]

Thank you so much for your suggestion. I totally agree that the Gnome Calendar would be the better option and I tried it earlier to launch it correctly in Hyprland but it failed.

Can you explain again how your python code is doing? Do I need to run this to launch the calendar correctly?

[rambip]

No, it does not open gnome calendar. Gnome calendar is just a frontend and it does not have any configuration flag to open it in a smaller window.
But you can communicate with the event you defined in gnome calendar using the EDataServer API. It will look in the right files and fetch the right data. This script only lists the events, you then have to display them in the widget you created using a custom logic.
Did you try to run the script ? I assumed you were fluent in python and PyGObject (since you created this tool and you installed PyGObject in your installer) but I may be wrong. This was just a demonstration of how to access the API, if this does not speak to you then don't waste too much time trying to use it.