[kalarm] [Bug 463278] "Time from now" alarms are unexpectedly imprecise

2022-12-30 Thread David Jarvie
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463278 David Jarvie changed: What|Removed |Added Latest Commit||https://invent.kde.org/pim/ |

[kalarm] [Bug 463278] "Time from now" alarms are unexpectedly imprecise

2022-12-21 Thread Rickard Westman
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463278 --- Comment #6 from Rickard Westman --- That sounds like a good idea! Perhaps rounding to the nearest minute (rather than truncating) would also be a rather simple change, cutting the relative error in half? -- You are receiving this mail because:

[kalarm] [Bug 463278] "Time from now" alarms are unexpectedly imprecise

2022-12-21 Thread David Jarvie
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463278 --- Comment #5 from David Jarvie --- It would require a significant redesign to trigger alarms at times other than on a minute boundary. Given that this would be very much a minority requirement, the most that I could contemplate doing would be to add

[kalarm] [Bug 463278] "Time from now" alarms are unexpectedly imprecise

2022-12-21 Thread Rickard Westman
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463278 --- Comment #4 from Rickard Westman --- It's not really stopwatch accuracy I expect, but more like kitchen timer accuracy. An alarm set for 2 minutes should not trigger after 1 minute. An alarm set for 1 minute should not trigger after 0 seconds. So

[kalarm] [Bug 463278] "Time from now" alarms are unexpectedly imprecise

2022-12-21 Thread David Jarvie
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463278 --- Comment #3 from David Jarvie --- KAlarm was never intended as a high accuracy timer, but rather as an application to help people organise their lives and remember to do things. I can see that if you expect it to act as a stopwatch you will get a

[kalarm] [Bug 463278] "Time from now" alarms are unexpectedly imprecise

2022-12-21 Thread Rickard Westman
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463278 --- Comment #2 from Rickard Westman --- I understand the technical reason, but when you can set an alarm for 1 minute and it fires after 1 second, it strains belief that any non-developer could see that as expected and intended behavior. So even if

[kalarm] [Bug 463278] "Time from now" alarms are unexpectedly imprecise

2022-12-20 Thread David Jarvie
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463278 David Jarvie changed: What|Removed |Added Status|REPORTED|RESOLVED Resolution|---