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 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
