RE: [Evolution] Hundreds of alarms

[Eric Newman <enewman ati com>]

Why not have a single alarm notification window that shows the most recent
notification and a "(132 previous notifications remaining)" indicator
somewhere. Then you could have a "dismiss all" button or something. You
could either go back in time one by one, or you could dismiss them all with
one click.

Either that or a single alarm notification window that lists all the alarms
with buttons for each one or chackboxes for each one and a button to
dismiss. That seems clunkier, though.

-Eric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dwight Tovey [mailto:dwight dtovey net] 
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 11:07 AM
> To: evolution lists ximian com
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Hundreds of alarms
>
>
>
> Rodrigo Moya said:
> > On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 04:17, Dwight Tovey wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 11:19, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > >
> > > > your problem is that there is no stored date for the last
> > > notification,
> > > > so the alarm daemon thinks the last notification was in 
> 1/1/1970, 
> > > > so
> > > it
> > > > shows you all alarms since then :-(
> > > >
> > > > It should probably just use the current time as the last 
> > > > notification date if that setting is not set.
> > > Ok, that explains not only the many alarms that I got this 
> morning, 
> > > but also the long past-due alarms when I haven't logged in to this 
> > > system (my laptop) for a few days.  In some circumstances I can 
> > > understand wanting these past-due alarms, but frankly, in general 
> > > they are mostly just a nuisance.
> > well, they are if you use the calendar just once in a while. But if 
> > you use it daily, as I do, they are really useful, like 
> reminding me 
> > of events that happened when I was on holidays, for instance.
>
> Great.  It works for you.  I'm happy for you.  For me though 
> I already get told enough by the rest of the staff if I miss 
> a meeting.  I don't really need my email program nagging me 
> also.  I want to be notified at the time of the meeting (or 
> appointement, or whatever), but I don't need it to tell me 
> that I missed yesterday's weekly status meeting.
>
> > >   I still think that it would be better if it was
> > > possible for the user to decide to only have alarms as they happen 
> > > and ignore anything overdue.
> > not sure if that would be a good solution.
>
> Care to expand on why not?  What would it take to include a 
> configuration option so that the user can specify an age 
> limit for alarms?  Either make it a per-alarm setting 
> (trigger this notice within X minutes before the set time but 
> not more than Y minutes after) or a global setting (don't 
> trigger any alarms that are more than Z hours past their set 
> time).  Leave the past-due alarms perpetually enabled by 
> default (that way you don't change existing behavior), but 
> give the users the ability to disable old ones.
>
> Just don't take the M$ mentality of saying "I do it this way 
> so everybody will do it this way".
>
>     /dwight
>
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