hi matthew, Am Montag, den 19.02.2007, 17:46 -0600 schrieb Matthew Nuzum: > For a while now I've been using Evolution as my PIM and I've noticed a > distinction between its alarms and Outlook's reminders. It seems there > is no concept of dismissing alarms. You can snooze them, but as the > bug above explains, if you reboot your computer, the alarms never come > back. You can close the alarm dialog, which in a sense, > single-handedly dismisses all of the alarms. However you don't exactly > get to operate on individual alarms. well, the term "snooze" implies to only postpone it for a short time. if you want to postpone something for a day (or something like that), i would ask you to edit the appointment data, instead of using the snooze function. (at least this was always my feeling about it when using evo.) > and, by > the way, if I snooze an alarm for 1 hour, the next time it pops up, > it's default snooze time is set back to 5 min, where as in Outlook, > the default time would be 1 hour, so I can continually post-pone my > reminders in Outlook 1 hour at a time with just one click) did you file this as a bug report? filing reports against evo can be pretty discouraging, i know. but please do this. > The net result is that I've actually suffered a severe loss of > productivity by switching to Evolution from Outlook. <irony>heh, to me it sounded like you would spend half of the day with clicking on snooze buttons to postpone events by an hour. ;-)</irony> > I try and file bugs for things like this, but I get frustrated when my > bugs languish, marked as unconfirmed. the problem is, like always, the lack of human ressources. triaging evolution bug reports takes more time than a half-time job, trust me. cheers, andre -- mailto:ak-47 gmx net | failed! http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/portal/aklapper
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