Re: [Evolution] Calendar Questions

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 06:33, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 09:10, Dan Winship wrote:
> > > > 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?
> >
> > No, we strip those on purpose.
> >
> > The issue is that if someone else has "always add an alarm to meetings",
> > and you don't, and they invite you to a meeting, you presumably don't
> > want to get the alarm that they automatically added to the meeting
> > request.
> >
> > But if you have "always add an alarm" set in Evolution, it ought to add
> > it when accepting the meeting request.
>
> So the logic goes:
>  - strip VALARM
>  - if default alarm is set, add default alarm
>
> OK.  That makes logical sense.  How would you feel about changing the
> logic to:
>  - if default alarm is not set, strip VALARM
>
> My only reason for suggesting this is that my default alarm is 15
> minutes before the meeting.  This is great for work meetings.  However,
> many of the meeting requests I get are from my wife for personal things
> that are happening after work.  It takes me 35 minutes to get home, so
> she always sets the alarm to 45-60 minutes before the meeting to remind
> me in time to get home for the appointment.  Otherwise, I have to
> remember to always edit all appointments from her to change the alarm to
> a longer setting than the default (and if I get an meeting update
> notice, it resets the alarm again) - or have an angry wife.
>
> Another not so elegant option would be to have an option to open the
> appointment editor when accepting a meeting.
>
> Of course, if it's just me, don't bother with changes.
makes a lot of sense to do it this way, and also is much easier to do,
so I'm just fixing it as we speak.

cheers
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>