Re: [Evolution] Calendar Questions

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 05:46, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> Got two issues/questions on accepting meetings in Evolution (from
> Outlook 2000, but I don't know if it's application specific or just an
> Evolution oddity), and one Evolution calendar question.
>
> Issue 1: Time
> When I receive a meeting request, it translates the UTC time to my
> timezone when I view it.  After accepting it, the calendar view shows it
> in the proper timeslot for my timezone.  However, if I open it to
> view/modify it (like add some comments), the time shown is in UTC.  Is
> this a feature or bug?
this is a feature. If the appointment times are in UTC, that's how
evolution treats it, altough as you said, it will convert to local
timezone when displaying the event in your calendar's slots.

> Issue 2: Alarms
> Meeting requests from Outlook 2000 that have a reminder set on the
> sender's end have this block in them:
>   BEGIN:VALARM
>   TRIGGER:PT15M
>   ACTION:DISPLAY
>   DESCRIPTION:Reminder
>   END:VALARM
> However, no alarm/reminder is added to the meeting when it is accepted
> into my calendar.  One, is it supposed to add that?
it is supposed to add the alarm as well, yes. Could you please enter a
bug and attach the event's icalendar string to it?

> Issue 3: Default Alarms
> In the preferences for Calendar and Tasks I have set the option to add a
> reminder to every appointment.  But it never does, or at least opening
> the appointment and looking at it shows no reminder, and there is no
> "bell" icon on the appointment.
that's weird. Restarting evolution does not fix it? maybe the
configuration change hasn't been read yet, since in 1.0.x the config
changes are only saved to disk when you exit evolution, so the event
editor might not be getting the change. This is fixed in 1.1.x, but it
might be that the cause. So try quitting evolution and restarting again
and see if that fixes it.

cheers
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>