Version: 1.2.4 (using KDE KDE 3.5.6) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux In Israel many people celebrate birthdays, holidays, and such as recurring on the Hebrew calender, not the Gregorian calender. Kontact has a Hebrew calender plugin. It is very necessary that we can create recurring events based on that calender. It would also be nice if events could recur on both the Hebrew and the Gregorian calendar. Thank you.
Dotan, what happens when you change the calendar system from Gregorian to Hebrew in kcontrol...? BTW, this is valid also for KDE4. ;-)
Diego, I dare not change the calender setting in Kcontrol as this is a work-critical machine. I do need my everyday dates in Gregorian, mind you, however, as this is the everyday calender that I live by. However, some events such as birthdays, weddings, and holidays are celebrated by the Hebrew calender, so recursion by that calender is important in addition to the Gregorian. Thanks.
Diego, if I may suggest, I think it would be most convenient if while creating the event or to do when choosing / entering the date you could choose the calendar system from a list of calendar systems enabled for you, then if there is a recursion it will show according to the system you have chosen. I guess it is the same and more important in the contact details page where you put birthday and anniversaries.
Just as an FYI, running Kontact on a desktop with a non-Gregorian Calendar System will display the Calendar and Contacts with the chosen Calendar System, and single events will work OK. However while setting up a recurring event in the GUI will appear to use the chosen Calendar System, it will in fact repeat according to the Gregorian Calendar System. OSX iCal does the same, Microsoft Exchange gets it right but won't export it to iCalendar. Basically the problem is the iCalendar standard doesn't currently support any Calendar System other than Gregorian, but I have a cunning plan to work around this :-)
The issue is that Israelis use the Gregorian calendar for daily life, but the Hebrew calendar for anniversaries. The system calender must remain Gregorian, only some holidays and birthdays (not even all of them) would be Hebrew.