It would be nice if the event injected into the Community Meeting announcements would display not just a world clock popup or downloadable ICS but also a QR code that could be easily imported to calendar.
I am not versed in this forum mechanism, so I am posting here for others to chime in. I was wondering whether there is an option or a plugin that offers such a functionality.
I’m sorry but .ics is the simplest way to import into a calendar is it not?
I need to download an ICS file, send it to my phone, save to a file system and open it from the file system. It’s not what I would consider simplest method.
What I did is
boom. SFOS Event calendar added,
I guess that means you are reading the forum on your phone. I read it on a computer. And both Discourser and SFOS Forum viewer only let me open the URL in the browser. If one has to do this for each community meeting, that’s not optimal.
Ah, yes - well you can usually add such ICS URLs also to online calendar services, such as Nextcloud, or Google calendar and so on.
Point is, if your calendar tool or service supports subscriptions, you need the URL only once.
That being said, I do think your point about a QR Code is valid, just to me it seems overly complicated.
The following snippet of line noise will create a qr code .png from the ICS Url (untested wrt the content!):
printf 'curl -s -L -o SailfishOS-Events.png https://quickchart.io/qr?text=%s' $(curl -s -L -o- https://docs.sailfishos.org/Support/community.ics | tr -d \\n | jq -Rr @uri ) | sh
Well, I know how to create QR codes, I have got libqrencode installed. Anyway, my point was to merely suggest a UX improvement.
One more thing, the Community ICS calendar sports no “X-WR-CALNAME”, which makes it sort of anonymous. The param is supported by SFOS components, since I have other calendars, where it makes them recognizable by a name.