The same issue described here is present on Ubuntu 15.04 with the out- of-the-box evolution 3.12.11, with slightly different steps to trigger it:
1. Opened Evolution 2. Switched to Calendar view 3. Right-clicked in the calendar list and chose "New Calendar" 4. Selected "On The Web" 5. Provided an iCalendar URL (from a Google Calendar with 1+ year of events) 6. Cleared the "user" field 7. Clicked "OK" OSD notifications were immediately enqueued for seemingly all of the calendar's past events, starting with the oldest, which were all displayed one-by-one. Two things wrong here: 1. There is no useful reason to trigger a notification for a past event (*maybe* events in the last hour would be relevant). 2. Events fetched from a remote calendar during an initial download should probably be exempt from various triggers/hooks that cause things like notifications and reminders to be processed. This might be moot if the previous point is addressed. Copying this comment into a new bug ticket since this might be considered a new case: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1480446 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evolution in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/848968 Title: Google Calendar reminders display unnecessarily Status in Evolution: Fix Released Status in evolution package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in evolution source package in Oneiric: Fix Released Bug description: When I add my google calendar account through the new Online Accounts feature I get an endless stream of notifications for all my calendar events going back some time .. perhaps a year. Even after un- checking setting in the Calendar for "Show reminder notifications", shutting down using evolution --force-shutdown, cleaning up any evo processes and purging the .cache/evolution/calendar directory, the reminders do not stop flooding in. I expect it will be a long time until I stop getting them, since there are probably several a day going back years .. in multiple calendars. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: evolution 3.1.91-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.17-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Sep 13 09:07:30 2011 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evolution UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-09 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evolution/+bug/848968/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
