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Bug 256131 - Recurrence Rule/Simple Recurrence: Incorrect Preposition
Recurrence Rule/Simple Recurrence: Incorrect Preposition
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Calendar
2.4.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Low trivial
: Future
Assigned To: evolution-calendar-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks: 236276 317266
 
 
Reported: 2004-03-28 15:39 UTC by bbigby
Modified: 2008-03-13 15:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description bbigby 2004-03-28 15:39:46 UTC
Package: Evolution
Priority: Normal
Version: GNOME2.2.2 1.4.6
os_details: Ximian, Inc.
Synopsis: Recurrence Rule/Simple Recurrence: Incorrect Preposition
Bugzilla-Product: Evolution
Bugzilla-Component: Calendar
Description:
Description of Problem:
There are 3 choices for selecting how long a recurrence rule should be
active: "for", "until", and "forever".  The "for" and the "forever"
options are fine but the "until" should read "through".

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Click Calendar.
2. Click "New" icon on the top of the Evo window to define a new
appointment.
3. Select the "Recurrence" tab.
4. Select the 'Simple recurrence " option.
5. Click on the "forever" drop down list. 

Actual Results:
3 options appear: "for", "until", and "forever".

Expected Results:
3 options appear: "for", "through", and "forever".

How often does this happen?
Everytime.

Additional Information:
"until" means that when a particular date occurs, the
recurrence/appointment is no longer active so if I say that an
appointment is valid until June 1st 2004, when I look at the "Day" view
for June 1st 2004, the appointment should NOT appear.  Currently, it
does.  Today, the Calendar/Recurrence option, "until", is consistent
with the preposition, "through".

I suggest that Calendar should support both prepositions:  "until" and
"through".  Today's "until" should read "through" and "until" should
mean the date at which an appointment is no longer valid so the
appointment should NOT appear on the Day view of the specific date at
which the appointment is supposed to be no longer valid.  So, now, we
might have the following 4 options:

(1) for
(2) through
(3) until
(4) forever

This is really a usability issue. 


Setting qa contact to the default for this product.
   This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.

Comment 1 André Klapper 2005-03-23 16:43:51 UTC
requires a string change => retargetting to 2.3.

to me this is a WONTFIX - no one will understand "until" and
"through", and i guess that the translators will also have fun with
that... :-/
comments?
Comment 2 André Klapper 2005-08-25 20:08:17 UTC
still valid in 2.3.7, punting to 2.5 due to string freeze; adding "string" keyword
Comment 3 André Klapper 2005-12-05 15:10:40 UTC
futuring, too unimportant. we have to take care of the important things.
Comment 4 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2006-12-04 04:14:56 UTC
I think this is WONTFIX. Until sounds reasonable to me.
Comment 5 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:25:34 UTC
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 6 Milan Crha 2008-03-13 15:42:50 UTC
Two WONTFIXes make it WONTFIX.