** Description changed:
I'm greatly missing timers from the clock app. In Android I use them all
the time for fixed time periods (laundry/bread/cooking/tea is ready,
etc.), and it's rather inconvenient to have to create a gazillion alarms
at a fixed time for these.
- I'm not sure why they got removed, but could we have them back please?
- Thanks for considering!
+ Using standard alarm has several disadvantages:
+ - indicator-datetime doesn't check seconds for alarms (lp: #1480200)
+ - Timer's alarms are visible in the core clock app. (lp: #1494229)
+ - standard alarms will not work correctly after changing timezone and during
DST change
- Before we will implement this we need to fix:
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-clock-app/+bug/1480200
-- Additional feature request,
I have a UX request when setting the timer. In addition to setting the time
remaining until it expires (as you'd expect), I'd like to also switch to the
ability to setting the clock time that I want it to expire. This would be very
similar to setting an alarm of course, but the alarm setting UI is geared
towards persistent alarms, not ephemeral ones.
Example use case: there's a one-off thing I need to do at 2pm. I could
set an alarm for 2pm by adding a new alarm, and then going in and
deleting the alarm after it has rung but this is tedious. Alternatively
I could calculate the time until 2pm myself and then quickly set a timer
for that length of time. This way there is no alarm to delete after it
has expired. I'd like to just go to the timer section and add a timer to
ring at 2pm by toggling to an "ETA" display instead of "time remaining"
and setting it from there.
** Also affects: timer
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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