I installed Ubuntu 12-04 LTS (beta) to check if a later version of evolution solved this. Unfortunately no! one time I got a pop-up for a birthday, and it was gone by the next boot!? I like the look and feel of evolution and very much like this potential very useful option fixed.
Note In the an very old evolution ( that comes with ubuntu 10-04 ) I got the birthday reminders working a little. A pop-up showed up briefly when the exact time -for instance- 14 days, BEFORE a birthday. After that it disappeared again, that cannot be the intention, the reminder must stay there until the day of an event is passed or even manually checked out. Edmund -- 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/912506 Title: Not getting reminders/alarms for birthdays/anniversaries/appointments Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I am using Evolution 2.28.3 which was installed with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. When I execute 'apt-cache policy evolution', I get 'evolution: Installed: 2.28.3-0ubuntu10.3' In my contacts, I have entered birthdays and anniversaries. These events show on the Birthday & Anniversary calendar. In my efforts to get the reminders to work, I also added some of these events to the Personal calendar. In Edit/preferences/alarms, I have both calendars checked, and have tried "Display alarms in notification area only" checked and unchecked. I am still not getting any reminders/alarms/sound/pop-up/notification/etc. I have noticed that Evo calendar on the left side has the dates for these events in italics, and that the date/time applet has these dates in bold font (neither of which is very noticeable - a change in font color would be better). Also, when I open an event in the personal calendar and make it "all day" and save, then open again, the changes are not saved. Lastly, since I have not seen a reminder, where is the "notification area"? Besides the calendar "reminders, et al" I would also like to have an email sent to me. What do I need to do to get these to work? TIA, Bill ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: evolution 2.28.3-0ubuntu10.3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-37.81-generic 2.6.32.49+drm33.21 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-37-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Jan 5 15:33:42 2012 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evolution To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/912506/+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
