I strongly agree that we need to denote missed alarms -- that
information should be prominent.
What's not clear to me is The Right Way to do this. We can't turn the
individual menuitems' icons red because they're removed from the menu
when the time has passed, since they're no longer upcoming events. We
also can't change the panel icon because there's no way to 'clear' the
warning to a normal state.
One thing we could do is to keep old alarms in the menu if (and only if)
they were missed. These menuitems' icons will change to red and can be
cleared by clicking on them. The indicator's main icon could be red if
there are any missed alarm menuitems in the indicator. This isn't a
perfect idea. While it does give the user needed information about
missed alarms, (1) it's a little clumsy and (2) what happens if we have
a handful of missed alarms? They will crowd out the upcoming alarms on
the menu.
Another option would be to leave a "missed alarm" message in the
Notification center... that raises interesting dependencies between the
indicators :)
This ticket still needs Design feedback.
** Changed in: indicator-datetime
Assignee: Charles Kerr (charlesk) => James Mulholland
(jamesjosephmulholland)
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[Indicators] Missed calendar or alarm events need to be properly
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