[Evolution] Bug#776705: fails to render tasks / VTODO items from iCalendar URLs

[Daniel Pocock]

Package: evolution
Version: 3.12.9~git20141130.241663-1+b1
Severity: important



I've tried to view a list of VTODO items from an iCalendar feed in the
Evolution tasks panel.

They don't appear.

Steps to reproduce / test the issue:

- create an ics file on, put it on a web server somewhere, e.g.
     http://localhost/test-file.ics

- put a mixture of VEVENT and VTODO items in the ics file

- in Evolution, click
     - New
     - Calendar
     - On The Web
     - URL: put in the URL of the test ics file

Look in the calendar and the VEVENT items (e.g. birthdays, appointments)
from the ics file are displayed correctly but the VTODO items don't
appear in the task list.

I tested this against the iCalendar support being added to UDD:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775180

The same test feeds and static hosted ics file are loaded correctly in
Mozilla Lightning.

If there is some bug parsing the VTODO feed then Evolution should
display a warning to let the user know that it is not displaying the
full content of the feed.