Re: [Evolution] Calendar Questions

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 16:10, 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.
I don't know if I already answered to this mail, but just in case: I've
changed the code to still strip all alarms and add the default one if
that is set in the configuration. We still strip the alarms coming in
the appointment for security reasons (think of a "execute rm -rf / at
0:00 tomorrow").

cheers
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>