On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 18:57, Dwight Tovey wrote: > I recently re-installed my system with FC1. I didn't bother to bring my > old Evolution settings over from my old system since it was a simple > matter to just configure on the the new system. Yesterday I got gpilotd > configured to let me sync my PDA and copied everything over from there, > including my contacts and appointments. > > Today when I started Evolution, I suddenly lots of Evolution Alarm > windows. One for every appointment that was past the appointment time. > Since I've been using the PDA for a couple of years and I have weekly > repeating meetings that I get notified about, this resulted in hundreds > of windows popping up. I got past it by running --force-shutdown > instead of killing each window individually, but this was not really a > good thing. > > I know the problem of alarms being triggered for past appointments has > been discussed before. Is there any resolution in sight? It seems to > me that it should be simple enough to (configurably?) tell Evo to ignore > alarms that are over a certain age at startup. It's really pointless to > tell me that I had a metting 2 hours ago, let alone 2 months ago. > your problem is that there is no stored date for the last notification, so the alarm daemon thinks the last notification was in 1/1/1970, so it shows you all alarms since then :-(
It should probably just use the current time as the last notification date if that setting is not set. cheers _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
