So I talked to Design about this, and the main answer that I got is that all of this is up in the air pending the new notifications Design that's coming in January.
In revision 391 of the proposed branch, I've changed calendar event handling s.t. they once again require a snap decision, but do not have haptic feedback and only play the sound once rather than looping. This is an attempt to find a good middle ground between bug #1401802's complaint "calendar event notifications are too intrusive" and this bug which says the revised ones are too easy to miss :-) Saviq, also if snooze isn't working for you please file a separate bug report and I'll take a look. ** Changed in: indicator-datetime (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Changed in: indicator-datetime (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-datetime in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1401802 Title: Calendar reminder notifications became queued, non-interactive and easy to miss Status in Ubuntu UX bugs: New Status in indicator-datetime package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: With the recent indicator-datetime update the reminder notifications time out and are not interactive any more, meaning that: - can't dismiss (have to wait for the sound/notification to time out) - can't snooze (I know the feature didn't work, but that was a missing feature, not a thing we didn't want?) - if you missed the notification, you missed the reminder Not sure if the reason is the same, but they started queueing, too, i.e. if there's two reminders for the same time, sound will play for both (bug #1340248), but the two notifications will be shown one after another. This is a UX regression in my opinion, even if it fixes bug #1320880. There is actually no clear design for this, I'm afraid, https://sites.google.com/a/canonical.com/apps-and-platform-team/3-platform/2-notifications ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: indicator-datetime 13.10.0+15.04.20141208-0ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 3.4.67 armv7l ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu10 Architecture: armhf Date: Fri Dec 12 08:59:10 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-12 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch) - armhf (20141212-020204) SourcePackage: indicator-datetime UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1401802/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp