{"id":858,"date":"2012-01-15T13:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T05:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/?p=858"},"modified":"2013-12-01T18:30:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T14:30:32","slug":"mauritian-holiday-files-for-kde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2012\/mauritian-holiday-files-for-kde\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritian Holiday Files for KDE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wanna have our National Holidays and special days get shown in your KDE calendar?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/div>\n
Here\u2019s the way to get it:<\/p>\n
You can checkout from git here or download the files here<\/a> (might not be up to date):<\/div>\n

git clone https:\/\/github.com\/Nayar\/KDE-for-Mauritius.git<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\n<\/span><\/div>\n
Copy the contents of \u201cHoliday Files\u201d to \u201c<\/span>\/usr\/share\/kde4\/apps\/libkholidays\/plan2\u2033. You will need administrative permission to do so. Open the destination location with this command (kubuntu). Then you will be able to paste the files<\/span><\/div>\n

sudo dolphin <\/span>\/usr\/share\/kde4\/apps\/libkholidays\/plan2<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\n<\/span><\/div>\n
Right click on the time widget in the lower-right section of your screen and select \u201cDigital Clock Settings\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
Now go to calendar, nect to Mauritius, select \u201cDays Off\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
U\u2019r Done! \":)\" <\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
Notes:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
1. This calendar is only valid for Year 2012 only. The following Holidays won\u2019t appear in the following years:<\/span><\/div>\n

Spring Festival
\n<\/span>Thaipoosam Cavadee
\n<\/span>Maha Shivratee
\n<\/span>Ougadi
\n<\/span>Assumption \/\/ This holiday did not appear in year 2011. I did not put it reccuring for this reason cause i\u2019m not sure when they decide to put it<\/span>
\n<\/span>Ganesh Chaturthi
\n<\/span>Divali<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you know in advance when the above events will occur, please let me know. Events like Eid-Ul-Fitr and Eid-Ul-Adhia are approximated yearly like this:<\/span><\/div>\n

\u201cEid-Ul-Fitr\u201d weekend on hijri 1 shawwal \/\/ weekend makes it appear as a Day off<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cEid-Ul-Adhia\u201d on hijri 10 thualhijjah \/\/ this will appear in green in the calendar as it is not a holiday <\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2. Send me a list of cultural days which mauritian celebrate such as St. Valentine\u2019s day, Father Laval day and birth of Sir Ramgoolam etc.<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
3. <\/span>If you want to help, here\u2019s my project page hosted on github code: https:\/\/github.com\/Nayar\/KDE-for-Mauritius<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
Next, i\u2019ll be doing a calendar for the Major activities organised by The University of Mauritius. Stay tuned to the SVN \":P\" <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wanna have our National Holidays and special days get shown in your KDE calendar? Here\u2019s the way to get it: You can checkout from git here or download the files here (might not be up to date): git clone https:\/\/github.com\/Nayar\/KDE-for-Mauritius.git Copy the contents of \u201cHoliday Files\u201d to \u201c\/usr\/share\/kde4\/apps\/libkholidays\/plan2\u2033. You will need administrative permission to do … Continue reading Mauritian Holiday Files for KDE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[149,55,61,64,110],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-git","tag-kde","tag-linux","tag-mauritius","tag-uom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}