Re: [Evolution] Can calendar reminders be made persistent?

["Suman Manjunath" <manjunath suman gmail com>]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:01 PM, timzak <tzakharov charter net> wrote:
> I have discovered a feature buried in the Alarm setting that allows alarms
> to repeat.  This definitely helps things.  Is there a way to automatically
> set this to always be on so I don't have to manually configure each calendar
> event?  For example, I'd like every calendar event I create to automatically
> be set to repeat every 5 minutes.

:-( Nope.. You can set a default alarm, but not a default repeating alarm.

> Also, I have found that when the alarm notifier shows up in the notification
> area, it is VERY easy to accidentally dismiss the alarm.  You must
> left-click in order for the Appointments window to pop up.  If you
> accidentally right-click (as I often do), the alarm basically turns off for
> that event forever (unless you manually set the alarm to repeat).
>
> I would like to be able to disable the right-click behavior and I'd also
> like for the Appointments window to pop up by itself, without me having to
> left-click the notification icon.

Using SVN trunk on openSUSE-11.0 - all my reminders pop up as windows,
by default. I'm not aware of reminders in the notification area.
(Ubuntu specific patch probably?)

> Are any of these situations possible to configure?
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated.

-Suman