What is yoman?

Yoman is a calendar widget for the panel bar of KDE Plasma 6, a desktop environment used on many Linux computers. Its name comes from the Hebrew word for diary or agenda. It sits in your desktop panel showing the current date, and when clicked, opens a popup showing a month grid along with the day's scheduled events. The widget pulls in events from calendars you already have set up elsewhere, rather than managing its own separate calendar system. It supports Google Calendar, connected through KDE's built-in Online Accounts feature, as well as any calendar that KOrganizer, KDE's calendar and personal information tool, already syncs, such as local files or CalDAV servers. Importantly, Yoman is read-only by design: it never creates, edits, or deletes any event. All those changes still happen in the original calendar app, and Yoman simply reflects the latest version the next time it refreshes. Beyond just showing dates, the widget offers a scrollable event list with details like time, location, description, and attendee responses, plus quick Join or Open buttons for meeting links. It can send desktop notifications a set amount of time before an event starts, and optionally show a full-screen alert while a meeting is actively happening. Users can also toggle which individual calendars are visible through a right-click menu, and a settings window covers appearance, calendar sources, and keyboard shortcuts. Because it relies entirely on KDE's own Google account integration rather than running its own separate login process, the README includes detailed guidance for people in workplaces with restricted Google Workspace accounts, explaining how to narrow down the permissions requested so an organization's IT policies are more likely to approve the connection. Installing Yoman requires a KDE Plasma 6 system with Qt 6, and comes with an install script that builds the small helper programs it needs and adds it to the desktop's widget picker.