GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 776145
Appointment alarms/notifications should be marked as urgent so they stay on-screen until explicitly dismissed
Last modified: 2017-07-14 05:10:17 UTC
The consequences to missing a calendar notification can be much more severe than missing another notification. I missed an appointment yesterday because a calendar notification came in while I was in the bathroom for 30 seconds. I locked the screen when I left and unlocked it when I returned, at which point the notification was already gone. Had it stayed on screen until I explicitly dismissed it, I would have seen it when I returned and not missed my appointment.
FWIW, I've already filed a bug on the fact that unlocking the screen counts as user interaction for the purpose of determining whether to dismiss the notification automatically, so that's not the issue: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776116
I'm reassigning this bug to the Evolution product. Calendar does not manage the notifications.
Thanks for a bug report. As long as you rely on Evolution notifications, but do not use Evolution for calendaring, open Evolution, then go to Edit->Preferences->Calendar and Tasks->Reminders tab and uncheck there "Display reminders in notification area only", which is basically the first option in that tab.
This feels a bit odd. Calendar doesn't do its own notifications? I have to change notification settings in Evolution---which I don't use? In the end I switched to Thunderbird, and everything works perfectly there.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #4) > This feels a bit odd. Calendar doesn't do its own notifications? I have to > change notification settings in Evolution---which I don't use? True and true. Yes, it's odd. > In the end I switched to Thunderbird, and everything works perfectly there. Please note that you are comparing an application with additional modules (Thunderbird+Lightning) with a separate calendar application (gnome-calendar) and a groupwise client (Evolution), which does all of the Thunderbird does and in some extent also more (on both sides, aka Thunderbird does some things more/better than Evolution too). That would be, from my point of view, just about gnome-calendar not being fully feature complete to compete with Thunderbird+Lightning.