Yes, most clocks can do this. Sort of right-click, choose "set alarm" would
really  be nice and quite intuitive.

A great thing would be to connect this to rhythmbox and/or totem and have it
play a designated playlist or song (or just random).

Evolution-data-server (or evolution) should of course be where the alarm is stored, it should even be possible to make an alarm from evolution.
But the clock is lacking in it's inability to set an alarm.

This would be great!  I'd like to vote for this enhancement (but I don't see how).  I don't use evolution (since our organiztion moved to Oracle Calendar) so it seems like a lot of trouble to open up evolution for a one-off alarm. Right now I use kalarm.

Is there any news about this idea? I'd really lkike to see it work.

Thanks, 
Blacko

I also think that this could be a great addition

Thanks

I've always felt that the panel clock in GNOME is missing something;
alarms and timers. Feature wise, I think the Alarm Clock panel applet
from http://alarm-clock.pseudoberries.com/ is nice. However it should be
built into the clock applet. The way I see it, we should have a new
menuitem in the right-click menu, labeled "Alarms and Timers". This
should have a submenu containing "New", a horizontal separator, then a
list of all active alarms, each having an icon showing if it's a timer,
an alarm and whether or not it's disabled. It should also have an area
like Locations, Tasks and Appointments do, so you can easily see how
long until ...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286520

This would be the most brilliant and useful improvement I could think of, when it comes to the panel applets. It would require far less effort than displaying time zones (how many people actually need that?).

And since many people use Thunderbird or some kind of webmail (gmail), Evolution should not be used for setting the alarm. It would add more dependencies, resources, CPU and memory usage for a simple feature.

It would also have many use cases. Many users can easily forgot about doing something important while using their computer (playing some game, browsing the web, chatting with their friends etc.). Setting the alarm would be the most simple solution to this problem, and users shouldn't be forced to search for their mobile phones and set the alarm there or install other applications.

This feature would have a very positive impact on the Gnome user experience and IMHO should be the #1 thing in the release notes ;-)

The Clock is integrated with Evolution today which provides setting alarms.
Hence closing as FIXED. There are no plans to duplicate functionality by providing another interface for this.

I've been following this bug for five years and chuckled at the different suggestions that have been made. What I envisioned in the beginning was the ability to start a 13 minute countdown from right-clicking the clock, selecting 'add an alarm' and typed 13 minutes into the dialog.

I can see which timezone I'm in, in a map under the calendar, in case a forget. But I can't set a simple pizza timer. Perhaps it fits best into it's own applet. I can't currently see a "countdown timer" or an "alarmclock" applet in my current gnome installation (ubuntu 9.04) though. I can't find some similar feature in evolution either, although I might schedule a meeting with my pizza, if I wanted to. This is a simple feature, it's time related and I think it naturally fits into the clock applet. I don't see why someone would find it natural to use evolution for this purpose, nor do I find it reasonable to say this is duplicate functionality because evolution can schedule a meeting or a date.

My pizza is long gone and thoroughly burnt. Luckily I've learned to program meanwhile and can implement this for my own use. I guess definitions of bloat varies.

I completely agree

(In reply to comment #10)
> I can't currently see a "countdown timer" or an "alarmclock" applet in
> my current gnome installation (ubuntu 9.04) though.

Not everything has to be default I guess.
I assume there are applications around, like Timer applet.

I'll Cc oGALAXYo and have him include it in the next /proper/ gnome release ;)

The last comment did not make sense but that might have been on purpose.

Why do I need to start the heavy Evolution application to set a simple one-time alarm? Or start a timer?

I NEVER use Evolution, not for calender, contacts nor mail. So why should I start it for a simple alarm?

Thus I don't use the calendar feature of the clock-applet. And I could care less about knowing what time it is in other places.

Wouldn't this be a perfect summer-of-code project? Or something else easy to add?