On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 06:33, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 09:10, Dan Winship wrote: > > > > Issue 2: Alarms > > > > Meeting requests from Outlook 2000 that have a reminder set on the > > > > sender's end have this block in them: > > > > BEGIN:VALARM > > > > TRIGGER:PT15M > > > > ACTION:DISPLAY > > > > DESCRIPTION:Reminder > > > > END:VALARM > > > > However, no alarm/reminder is added to the meeting when it is accepted > > > > into my calendar. One, is it supposed to add that? > > > > > > > it is supposed to add the alarm as well, yes. Could you please enter a > > > bug and attach the event's icalendar string to it? > > > > No, we strip those on purpose. > > > > The issue is that if someone else has "always add an alarm to meetings", > > and you don't, and they invite you to a meeting, you presumably don't > > want to get the alarm that they automatically added to the meeting > > request. > > > > But if you have "always add an alarm" set in Evolution, it ought to add > > it when accepting the meeting request. > > So the logic goes: > - strip VALARM > - if default alarm is set, add default alarm > > OK. That makes logical sense. How would you feel about changing the > logic to: > - if default alarm is not set, strip VALARM > > My only reason for suggesting this is that my default alarm is 15 > minutes before the meeting. This is great for work meetings. However, > many of the meeting requests I get are from my wife for personal things > that are happening after work. It takes me 35 minutes to get home, so > she always sets the alarm to 45-60 minutes before the meeting to remind > me in time to get home for the appointment. Otherwise, I have to > remember to always edit all appointments from her to change the alarm to > a longer setting than the default (and if I get an meeting update > notice, it resets the alarm again) - or have an angry wife. > > Another not so elegant option would be to have an option to open the > appointment editor when accepting a meeting. > > Of course, if it's just me, don't bother with changes. > makes a lot of sense to do it this way, and also is much easier to do, so I'm just fixing it as we speak.
cheers -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
