A New Linux Calendar is Here ~ Introducing Dank Calendar ~ the latest DankLinux app!

Introducing Dank Calendar, a DankLinux application.
- built by u/bbedward

DankCalendar is a beautiful, powerful solution for calendar management on Linux that unifies Local, Google, Microsoft, CalDAV, and iCloud calendars into a single agenda. It features background synchronization, native tasks, events, reminders, secure credential storage, a comprehensive GUI, keyboard-driven navigation, and a scriptable IPC interface.

It is available now on every DankLinux supported distro: Arch, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, NixOS, Void and openSUSE. It is deeply integrated into the upcoming DMS v1.5 and is 100% functional on its own!

Why a new Linux calendar?

It fits the Dank philosophy of focused tools (dgop, dsearch) that do one thing well and integrate together, without unnecessary dependencies or assumptions about your setup. The calendar is a core part of the user experience, so it deserves a first-party solution that works well with the shell and with your existing accounts.

khal and vdirsyncer are scriptable and lightweight, but they're two tools you wire together yourself. You write a vdirsyncer config, set up OAuth tokens by hand, run sync on a cron, then point khal at the output. It's not a user-friendly or comprehensive solution.

Evolution and Evolution Data Server are powerful, but they're tied to the GNOME desktop and incredibly difficult to build on or integrate with. The calendar is just one part of a huge suite of apps sharing the EDS backend.

• The calendar is buried inside an Outlook-style suite, and account setup is spread across GNOME Settings, GNOME Online Accounts, and Evolution itself, so it's never clear which one actually owns a calendar.
• EDS is a shared backend, which is a good idea, but its API is GObject/C with async GLib and very few real examples. Writing a launcher widget, a shell card, or a CLI against it means digging through source-registry concepts and ECalClient instead of calling something simple.
• It drags in a heavy GTK and WebKitGTK stack and assumes you're on GNOME, which is awkward on niri, Hyprland, Sway, KDE, or a custom shell.

DankCalendar keeps the good part of that idea, one synced backend that lots of things can read, but makes it pleasant to use and to build on: sign-in style account setup, a local cache that works offline, a documented IPC API (dcal ipc events.list, events.create, and so on) with JSON output, and a daemon-plus-frontends design that behaves the same on any compositor.

Read the full release notes at: https://danklinux.com/blog/dankcalendar-release