Re: [Evolution] Some bugs in version 0.5.1 calendar

[Damon Chaplin <damon helixcode com>]

"Brian T.N. Gunney" wrote:
> I installed evolution and most of its components myself (which
> means it's a possibility that these bugs are just due to my
> clumsiness), and here are some problems I've found:
>
> In the calendar, Edit/Preferences/Alarms, nothing is showing up
> in the "defaults" box.  In gnomecal, this was where you set up
> really neat reminder actions, which I thought were really cool
> and I hope it will be completely restored.
>
> In the calendar, Edit/Preferences/"Time display", changing the
> day range has no effect on the shading or display of the daily
> schedule.
>
> In the calendar, Edit/Preferences/"Weeks start on", selecting
> Sunday has no effect.  Weeks always start on Monday regardless.
>
> In the calendar, Edit/Preferences/"To Do List", none of the buttons
> seem to have any effect.  I turned on "Due Date", "Time Until Due"
> "Priority", but I see none of this information displayed.  I know
> that I can drag in colums from the field chooser, but if that's
> the way I ought to do it, maybe it the buttons in the preference
> dialog should not be there.

The preferences dialog wasn't really working at all in 0.5.1.
I've recently redone some of it so some of the settings on the
'Calendar' page now work. But it needs more work.

 
> In the calendar, dragging Alarms from the field chooser to the
> column heading and then clicking on the Alarms heading crashes
> the calendar.  (I've sent a bug report via bug-buddy.)

I don't think it crashes now, but it does output warnings.
I think I can fix that.


> In the calendar, setting up columns using the field chooser
> does not mean that the column will be there if I exit and
> restart.  This should really be a persistent setting, IMO.

Yes, I'll try to do that for the next release.

Damon