GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 213660
Set default alarm type and sound file in preferences
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:33:30 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Wishlist Version: 0.16 Synopsis: suggestions for improvement in UI for Evolution calendar Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Calendar Description: The current method of setting alarms/reminders in the Evolution calendar is very cumbersome in my opinion. First it seems that the calendar setting under the Other tab -- Create new appointments with a default reminder... -- has no effect (or at least is not remembered). Second it seems that to get an audible alarm one must always add a reminder of the "Play a sound..." type and -- before adding it, click on Options and browse to find a sound file. It doesn't even remember where the last sound file you used was. It seems to me this could all be much easier. In my opinion the alarm setup is much better in the Gnome Calendar -- you should be able to have a default alarm type (display, sound, etc.) for appointments and add another with a single click. If you want to allow people to choose which sound to use, that's fine but you shouldn't have to browse sound files every time you want to set an alarm. For me one choice, under calendar settings would be more than adequate. So, to sum up, the alarms need a simpler interface for their setup and some reasonable defaults. Unknown reporter: jslavin@cfa.harvard.edu, changed to bugbuddy-import@ximian.com.
Agree that these enhancements should be done. Unfortunately too late for 1.2. Changed Target Milestone to 1.4 & added Feature keyword.
This should go into 1.6. We don't want to make any more UI additions in 1.4 at this point, due to time constraints and fears of regression.
Retargetting
updating the state of the art in evolution-2.0.3.0.200501070910-0.snap.ximian.10.1: first, it seems that enabling "Show a reminder [7][minutes] before every appointment" under "Calendar and Tasks" in the settings seems to work. it will be the preset when setting up any new appointment. second, one still always has to choose to play a sound file. the directory is still not stored/remembered. please reschedule this, at least to keep the directory whjere one has chosen the last sound file, PLEASE! would be an easy and great enhancement of this.
when fixing second issue (remembering the directory of the last file chosen) this one please also fix bug 271551, it's the same problem and the same code!
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still valid in 2.4.0, retargetting from 2.3 to 2.5
There have been some alarm UI changes .. posting the link here as this is also an UI enhancement request http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-patches/2005-November/msg00001.html
improving the summary. adding string keyword since this requires string changes.
Fix has been committed.
"set default alarm type in preferences" has not been fixed. reopening.
*** Bug 340544 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It would also be nice to be able to have multiple default alarms. For example, to pop up a warning 15 minutes before the event AND play a sound at the time of the event. The default alarm creation dialog should look just like the regular alarm creation dialog.
*** Bug 466602 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bumping version to a stable release.
I agree with Larry Hunter's suggestion. I know this is minor, but it would make the calendar a lot more usable - IMHO
Larry: Please file a separate request for this separate issue.
*** Bug 240769 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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