Bug#402084: About bug # 402084 in Debian BTS

[Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch>]

Hello Olivier,

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Olivier Vitrat wrote:

> Why have you reopened this bug ?

The reopening mail:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=12;bug=402084

contains at the bottom a demo of how konsolekalendar doesn't work here.

> Do you still have the problem, because I can't reproduce it ?

Before I had Debian. Now I have Ubuntu. So I tried again on my Ubuntu 
here. Similar results:

  $ konsolekalendar
  QFile::remove: Empty or null file name
  $

Nothing happens.

When I explicitly pass it a file containing a valid calendar (used from 
korganizer):

   $ konsolekalendar --file /tmp/ljilja.ics
   $

Nothing happens either.

   $ dpkg -s konsolekalendar | grep Version
   Version: 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu6
   $

As usual with KDE apps, there's no manpage or informative README (it would 
be preferable to have one with konsolekalendar since it is supposed to be 
started from the command line universe...):

   $ man konsolekalendar
   No manual entry for konsolekalendar
   $

After trying around some more with "--help":

   $ konsolekalendar               # nothing happens
   QFile::remove: Empty or null file name
   $ konsolekalendar --view        # nothing happens
   $ konsolekalendar --view --all
   # Hooray! Displays the whole calendar since the beginngins of time

OK, it is doing *something*. Weird.

How is one supposed to be using konsolekalendar (as mentioned above theres 
no helpful information coming with it)?

I'd expect it to display the future events by default, however it doesn't 
do that. The following incantation seems to get near that:

   $ konsolekalendar --view --show-next 30 | less

So konsolekalendar actually works, it's just that its default behaveour 
seems to be useless. I'll rename the bug accordingly then.
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