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No default alarm
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CLOSED: FIXED

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Description Tino Keitel 2007-07-31 05:21:04 CEST
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I was a bit disappointed when I saw that orage has the same bug (IMHO, it's a bug) as korganizer from KDE: when I create a new appointment, there isn't an alarm set. So when I forget to manually set an alarm, then I don't get a notification, and miss the appointment. So I could rather keep using postits.

I think the best would be to add a setting for the default alarm time. Meanwhile, I just patched orage to set the alarm to 3 minutes if no alarm was set during the creation of a new appointment.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create an appointment
2. don't set an alarm
3. wait for the appointment's time - no notification appears
Comment 1 Tino Keitel 2007-07-31 05:22:19 CEST
Created attachment 1295 
set the default alarm time to 3 minutes if no alarm was set
Comment 2 juha editbugs 2007-07-31 18:38:49 CEST
I hardly ever create new appointments, I almost always copy an old appointment
and get alarm from there. Could you use that as a workaround?

Everything else has defaults, but alarm time so the patch is valid, but I bet
somebody then files a bug that there is default alarm always and they do not
wish to see that.

So to build this enhancememt properly, we might need a new default setting
for alarms. Somebody wants audible and different sound or window type...

For me a BUG is something that works differently than planned, so I classify
this as an enhancement, but it is a valid one. I will implement it somehow
to 4.5 Orage.

Thanks for the idea!
Comment 3 Tino Keitel 2007-07-31 20:02:15 CEST
Yes, the patch was not meant as a solution, but as an example how to get a default alarm if someone has an urgent need for it (like me).
Comment 4 juha editbugs 2007-07-31 21:33:51 CEST
This is now in Orage 4.5 svn trunk revision 25946.

New appointments have now alarm set to 5 mins before the start time.

I may do the whole alarm default template later...but it is different
than this enhancement.
Comment 5 juha editbugs 2009-02-28 17:44:06 CET
4.6.0 has default alarm, which can also be modified.

Bug #3425

Reported by:
Tino Keitel
Reported on: 2007-07-31
Last modified on: 2009-02-28

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