[Kde-pim] KOrganizer: Support for Android (and others) style recurring event cancelling

[Philipp Schmidt]

Hello everyone,

currently KOrganizer only supports exceptions to events using EXDATE in 
the corresponding event. Android on the other hand creates a VEVENT with 
the same UID and a field STATUS:CANCELLED.

Recurring events where I have added an exception this way from Android 
(Thunderbird Lightning also does it this way just for reference) are no 
longer visible in KOrganizer, or more specifically: Only the first 
exception found in the ics file is visible. This behaviour has been 
reported in Bug 282591 in late 2011: 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282591 but there has not been a 
response from the developers. Since I am updating my events mostly on my 
mobile phones or my tablet these days this has become a major nuisance.

Are there plans to support this way of exception handling and where does 
the actual problem reside? Is is only a display issue in the calendar 
component or are changes needed in the underlying libraries? The way 
things are I can no longer use KOrganizer for my calendar, as it is 
quite useless if it doesn't show my recurring events. It would be OK if 
it still showed the event and just ignored the cancelled ones (The 
ownCloud web calendar does it this way, if a conflicting event is 
present I can be quite sure that the recurring one is a cancelled one), 
but showing only one exception is simply surprising and illogical.

Cheers
Philipp
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