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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] KOrganizer Alarm
From:       Allen Winter <winter () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-01-14 17:24:11
Message-ID: 200501141224.11606.winter () kde ! org
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On Friday 14 January 2005 11:44 am, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> On Friday 14 January 2005 17:18, Allen Winter wrote:
> > I would think that:
> >   "Toggle alarm" should set/unset the alarm if the incidence has a
> > reminder. Else the "Toggle alarm" selection should be disabled.
> 
> An incidence either has an alarm set, or it hasn't. In the first case, the 
> menu item shall disable the alarm,
OK, then Toggle Alarm should be disabled if the incidence does not have a reminder set.
Else Toggle Alarm should remove the reminder from the incidence

> in the second case it shall set it.
So a reminder editor needs to popup (and be written).
Until a reminder editor exists we should disable Toggle Alarm in this case.

> The   alarm time in the editor dialog is not independent from the checkbox to 
> enable the alarm at all. If no alarm is set, the incidence also doesn't store 
> an alarm time.
I didn't know that.

> 
> libkcal's Alarm class has an enabled flag, but that can't be used for what you 
> propose (it's just meant for internal purposes). In particular, if the 
> enabled flag is set to off, the alarm will never be saved to disk. So if you 
> have an incidence with an alarm, you could then toggle the alarm to off at 
> will in korganizer. However, once you save the event to disk with the alarm 
> toggled off, and korganizer reloads the calendar, the event won't have any 
> alarm information set, so the toggle will no longer be available...
> How will you ever communicate this to a user? 
> 
Maybe we can think about this more in a future KOrg.
As has been pointed out earlier in this thread, reminders/alarms can be much
more complex than we are currently allowing for.  I think we probably need a
separate reminder/alarm editor dialog.  And some libkcal tweaks.

> > If the above is correct 
> 
> It's not.
> 
Well, it should be ;>

Regards,
Allen

PS. I still think the default alarm time configuration setting should be eliminated...
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