Re: [Evolution] duplicate reminders, snooze times

[Daniel Pocock <daniel pocock pro>]

On 07/07/15 08:41, Andrea Vai wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 07/07/2015 alle 07.17 +0200, Milan Crha ha scritto:
> > On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 15:22 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> > > Is the snooze time kept on the client or the CalDAV server?
> >
> >      Hi,
> > Evolution stores the snooze/already-reminded settings locally only.
> > There is also no standard facility to store such "flags" on the server,
> > at least not on most of them (I think an Exchange server has a property
> > for it). The CalDAV doesn't have any such standard setting, as far as I
> > know, thus the interoperability between two independent applications is
> > equal to none in this case. As it's all locally stored in the Evolution
> > then even two Evolution instances on two different machines will
> > repeat/not-know-about-snooze being done in the other instance, despite
> > being connected to the same server and calendar.
>
> Hi,
> I would like a couple of details, please, because I am wondering about
> this behaviour since I switched to evolution from MS Outlook many years
> ago.
>
> Now I use to sync my appointments between evo and my Samsung smart-phone
> using my google account... does all you say about CalDAV apply to my
> case too? i.e., is a "google account calendar" equivalent to CalDAV?
> Sorry, I am a bit confused here.
>
> When I used to use outlook and another smartphone (with windows mobile)
> it happened that each device was aware of the snooze/dismiss being
> selected on the other one. This was great, because now it is quite
> annoying give twice (or more) the same command (snooze/dismiss etc) to
> different devices. I know that it was a totally different syncing
> technology there, but it would be really wonderful if evo will be able
> to do the same.
>
> Sorry for my English and for asking noob questions,
>
> I am using Evolution 3.12.11


Milan, thanks for the response

If the CalDAV and iCalendar standards don't specify a way to do this,
then would the Evolution developers consider submitting an IETF draft
proposing a solution?

If Outlook is doing this better and it is something that causes daily
annoyance to GNOME users then it really sounds worthwhile to resolve.

Regards,

Daniel