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Bug 215529 - Custom Occurrence Not Available
Custom Occurrence Not Available
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Calendar
pre-1.5 (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-calendar-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 226120 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-11-16 18:21 UTC by Steve Murphy
Modified: 2005-03-02 00:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Steve Murphy 2001-11-16 18:21:21 UTC
Here's my wish:

1. Get rid of the "Custom Occurrence" button.

2. Rename "Simple Occurrence" to "Occurrence" (what you got is no longer
"simple"!

3. Now I'm dreaming:
   Add to the month recurrence a "Plus X days" just before the
"Forever-for-until" button. This should take care of most multi-day events
where the first day is "pinned" to a particular day of the month/week. It
should  default to zero.

   Allow the automatic display of Holidays (multinational), where the user
can choose from a nice sized list. I'd include at least:

     Easter
     Hebrew New Year
     Chinese New Year
     Passover
     Christmas
     Thanksgiving
     Labor Day
     Veteran's Day
     .... and so forth. I'd include most religious holidays from 
           Christian, Jewish, Islam, Hindu, Buddist, most national Holidays 
           for several countries.

    And, finally, a recurrence based on a holiday, which allows several
other more minor holidays to be charted, "pinned" to the somewhat irregular
patterns of those holidays based on lunisolar events...

There's a good book on how to calculate these, "Calendrical Calculations",
but you might want first to discuss with the authors what it is they've
patented in relationship to date calcs.

Other cools things that could be done is the display of sunrise-sunset
times, and moonrise/set times. High/low tide for those near the ocean. And
how about moon phase, for those night paintball fanatics.

And, the last but not least cool thing, would be to allow different
calendars to be displayed. Like Chinese, Hebrew, Islam, etc. With native
month and etc. names. A lot of these would be interesting because the days
are split anywhere from noon to sunrise/set. And a few don't even reckon
time in hours/seconds, but in stuff like "moments"... oh well...
Comment 1 Steve Murphy 2002-02-05 15:09:52 UTC
Here's another enhancement request:

I can get recurrence on a lot of yearly holidays by choosing "simple"
recurrence, then (12) Months on the (n)th Friday Forever, for example.

But, There are some holidays that are declared to be on the LAST
Friday (as an example), which could be 4th or 5th, if it exists. So,
we need a choice somehow, between the numbers, or "LAST". Can it be done?

Comment 2 JP Rosevear 2002-02-05 22:38:41 UTC
The second part is being implemented for 1.2.

The problem with the first part is that iCalendar supports extremely
complex recurrences.

The holiday list idea is already in bugzilla.

The plus x days bit i don't see being overly useful except for
crossing month boundaries.  Is this what you need it for?
Comment 3 Steve Murphy 2002-02-05 23:24:06 UTC
No, not really. There's a few events that go multiple days, but are
anchored to a certain day of the month. For instance, the First
Saturday of the month, and the day after. It's easy to do the first
saturday of a  particular month; but the day after might be the second
Sunday, depending on whether the month started with Sunday or not.

The reason I suggest removing the Complex Occurrence buttion is
because the choice is greyed out. If you can't support an option, get
rid of it, is my motto... When you can support it, resurrect it.
Actually, the more options available, the better, so I'd love to see
the Complex Occurrences presented in evolution...!


Comment 4 JP Rosevear 2002-02-06 16:00:12 UTC
For the first part, you can just make a multi-day event anchored to
the Saturday.

For the second part, the option is only available when a recurrence
(you either received via email or imported) contains unsupported
recurrences.
Comment 5 Gerardo Marin 2002-06-13 17:06:43 UTC
*** bug 226120 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 JP Rosevear 2005-03-02 00:07:10 UTC
This bad UI was resolved in 2.0.