[Evolution] Hundreds of alarms

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 20:31, Ian Robertson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 14:20, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> 
> > I mean, if the user doesnt want to have alarms, then she creates
> > appointments without alarms. If you create alarms in your appointments,
> > why don't you want to be notified of those alarms?
> I had this problem when I first started using Evolution, and did a
> hot-sync with my pilot.  The next time I restarted Evolution, all my old
> appointments (and there were lots of them) came up as alarms.  It was so
> bad that Evolution crashed before I could dismiss them; I cannot
> remember anymore how I managed to get past this, but it was a big pain.
> 
this should be fixed now, since we dont display alarms if it's the first
time we open the calendar (ie, if the last notification time is not
set). Also, I am going to add the 'Dismiss All' button to dismiss all
alarms, if that happens in other cases.

> > Since your case of not wanting to be notified seems to be a corner-case,
> > adding a config option only for a few people seems overkill.
> It may be a corner case once you get going, but I could see it being a
> substantial barrier to entry for first-time users.
> 
as I said, in 1.5.x this shouldn't happen.

> > If you can prove lots of people use alarms but dont want to get
> > notified, then, we'll add the config option. Until then, I'll think it's
> > a bad solution.
> Again, remember that Evolution shares it's calender data with other
> applications; just because the user wants one of those to alert them
> doesn't mean they want *all* of them to alert them.
> 
so, you want notifications for some events, but not for others? Then,
you set up alarms for the events you want to be notified for.

cheers