Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-28 Thread theapplepie
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 2:38 pm From: Milan Crha mc...@redhat.com nobody got to it yet, see: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258920 Wow, for more than 10 years. Maybe it is too complicated. I will add a comment to the bug, maybe somebody will have mercy on this bug.

Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-28 Thread Milan Crha
On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 01:52 -0400, theapple...@differentmail.com wrote: As the tool evolution-addressbook-export is already there, why not add it to the GUI so newbies can find and use it easily? Hi, nobody got to it yet, see: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258920

Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-27 Thread theapplepie
-Original Message- From: Milan Crha mc...@redhat.com the CSV format is worse than the vCard format, because the vCard format holds any detail, while the CSV is only that what the developers think is important. The vCard is a standardized format, while CSV is just about plain text lines

Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-27 Thread theapplepie
-Original Message- From: Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org It should be possible to write a Python script to grab the data you are interested from EDS and write it to a file. If you are interested in such a solution I am willing to take a stab at it. If you are

Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-27 Thread theapplepie
Sent: Mon, Jul 27, 2015 1:56 pm Subject: Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 10:59 -0400, Dan wrote: Does anybody know how to extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution? I tried to export

Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-27 Thread Milan Crha
On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 08:47 -0400, theapple...@differentmail.com wrote: A question from a programming layman: Why is the option to export to csv not included in the GUI of evolution? Could this be added in a future version? I think the csv-format is more common today. Hi, the CSV

Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-27 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 08:47 -0400, theapple...@differentmail.com wrote: Why is the option to export to csv not included in the GUI of evolution? Because CSV is a horrible unstructured (random field names, random field delimiters) error-prone (random field delimiters, no charset encoding

Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 10:59 -0400, theapple...@differentmail.com wrote: Does anybody know how to extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution? I tried to export the address book as vcf and then convert it in a list, but did not succeed. I searched the internet for a

Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 08:47 -0400, theapple...@differentmail.com wrote: Hi Milan Thanks a lot! The tool also works on Ubuntu 14.04, although it is in a slightly different folder, command example: /usr/lib/evolution/3.10/evolution-addressbook-export --format=csv

Re: [Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-26 Thread Milan Crha
On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 10:59 -0400, theapple...@differentmail.com wrote: Does anybody know how to extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution? I tried to export the address book as vcf and then convert it in a list, but did not succeed. Hi, the vCard format

[Evolution] Extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution

2015-07-24 Thread theapplepie
Hi! Does anybody know how to extract a list of names and birthdays anniversaries out of Evolution? I tried to export the address book as vcf and then convert it in a list, but did not succeed. I searched the internet for a solution without success. I wonder whether it is possible, e.g. through