GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 337824
alarms get removed from appointment
Last modified: 2006-08-21 15:25:36 UTC
Please describe the problem: Alarms for appointments do not work Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a new appointment, accept the default of 00:00-00:30 2. Add an alarm with a reminder 21 days before hand, no user defined message 3. Accept the lot 4. Re-open the appointment, look at the alarms list Actual results: The alarm has been removed. Expected results: The alarm should never be removed. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: An alarm is a critical feature of a calendar. When you enter an appointment for which you need a reminder, you are in fact entrusting the computer to reminder you of something, perhaps the reminder is for the renewal of gnome.org, or something similar.
did what you described and it works fine here, i cannot reproduce your bug. what does "accept the lot" mean? after adding the alarm, go to the day view of the day where the appointment takes place: is the alarm symbol (the bell) visible in front of the summary? which distro is this?
(In reply to comment #1) > did what you described and it works fine here, i cannot reproduce your bug. Did you try with a 21 day alarm? > what does "accept the lot" mean? I mean click OK until the dialogs go away. > > after adding the alarm, go to the day view of the day where the appointment > takes place: is the alarm symbol (the bell) visible in front of the summary? Yes I do, but there isn't a way to see the alarm. How did I try? I opened the appointment with a double-click, and then went to alarms. There is an entry marked "Pop up alert for an unknown trigger type". If I select that and go to Properties, I get no extra information. > which distro is this? FC5.
yes, i tried 21 day alarm. :-)
I'll attach a screenshot then.
Created attachment 63142 [details] A screenshot of the alarm dialog before clicking Close, then Save
Created attachment 63144 [details] A screenshot of the alarm dialog after saving, and re-opening it.
Created attachment 63145 [details] A screenshot of the alarm dialog > properties
I'm getting this same problem. The "default" (15 min, 1 hour, 1 day) alarm times do trigger a pop-up alarm notification, but if I input any custom time or try to have Evolution run a program, it forgets the alarms that were set. When I select the "Customize" option, an Action pops up that says "Pop up an alert -1 minutes before the start of the appointment." I then select a custom time, say 20 minutes, and then Save/Close the appointment window. If I re-open the dialog box and view the alarms, the Action list shows "Pop up an alert for an unknown trigger type". This is on Fedora Core 5 with the following packages: [kremit@Kremit ~]$ rpm -qa|grep -i evolution evolution-2.6.0-1 evolution-data-server-1.6.0-1 evolution-webcal-2.4.1-3.2 evolution-sharp-0.10.2-9
the "-1 minutes" issue is fixed now, see bug 333689. so would be cool if you could check this again after your distributor has provided updated packages; i guess it has something to do with each other.
This seems to work now - thanks!
also thanks a lot to you for the feedback - closing as fixed then.