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I'm a Kubuntu user moving to Unity, one nice feature that the KDE panel calendar (the one that pops up when you click on the clock) had is that it indicated my local public holidays. I think each holiday had a red square around it and when you clicked on it it showed the name of the holiday. Can this be set up with for the Unity panel calendar?

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  • Related answer that also provides a solution. Just search for a website that provides holidays in the form of an iCal or .ics file or URL. You can either download the .ics file or link to it on the web to have it update automatically.
    – mchid
    Feb 11 at 10:28

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The only possible solution I can think of is the following: Evolution, as I am aware, features synchronization with Google Calendar (I use Thunderbird myself so I cannot guarantee how well it works). Google Calendar has plenty of options, including subscribing to public calendars, amongst those I am sure there is one for your region's holidays. The solution would be subscribing to that specific calendar in GC, then synching the calendar with Evolution. All of Evolution's marked dates should automatically be added to the panel calendar entry.

Here are a few links I hope you find helpful:

http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37098 - How to add a public calendar to GC

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1599583 - How to sync GC and Evolution

http://email.about.com/od/googlecalendartips/qt/Move_All_Events_from_One_Google_Calendar_Calendar_to_Another.htm - In case the synchronization doesn't pull the public calendar entries, it needs some further fiddling, but it should work.

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  • Yeah, I'm a Thunderbird user too, (I tried Evolution now on natty but is was quite unusable with my 3GB Gmail box over IMAP). In KDE it is so simple, I wonder how they did it. I'll try your solution when I have time, but running Evolution just for that seems a bit overkill.
    – AmanicA
    May 24, 2011 at 15:10
  • You can configure Thunderbird (with Lightning) to use the same gnome (unity) calendar. Check out this extension: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/sunbird/addon/evolution-mirror I have no idea if it works though. May 24, 2011 at 17:11

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