Evolution does not show persistent alarms in Unity

Thank you for your bug report, evolution should open a dialog for meeting reminders, not only a notification, that was enabled by default on natty see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/2.32.1-0ubuntu3

" * debian/evolution.gconf-defaults: Disable systray for alarms, as Unity
    doesn't have a systray. Use popup windows instead."

Subscribing mpt since he's working on the design for systray replacements in Ubuntu, Matthew do you have any suggestion there?

For some people, like me, the dialog that is opened by Evolution on every alarm is annoying, so, we use the "show alarms only in tray" option.

I agree with geoffrey about the need of a better integration of this option in Unity.

Thank you!

Is there any evolution on this issue? Is there any systray replacement which could be tested?

It looks like the icon is still there when using unity-2d. At least, it works on my computer.

As this makes evolution alarms almost useless, and caused me to miss an appointment which cost me money, "low" seems like the wrong priority.

This appears to be as being fixed in Oneiric (Ubuntu 11.10).

Although I agree we could do more (indicator ?), I'm not sure what else needs to be done. I've just been able to confirm in precise (though the packages in Oneiric as extremely similar, unlikely that there is any difference impacting alarms) that alarms cause both the alarm dialog to pop up in front of all windows, despite evolution to be closed (but e-calendar-factory needs to be running, but that's "obvious"), and it also causes a notification bubble to show up. The persistent trace would be the evolution alarm dialog that pops up. Any reason that this is not sufficient, besides the fact that a window popping up might be annoying for some?

I am also with Ubuntu 11.10, but there is no pop-up window.
It would be good to have a pop-up window (and a possibility to stop it in the preferences for the people that do not like it.)
An indicator with a drop-down list of all active notification would be great as well. It would be handy if the notification(s) would be listed there (not disappear) until some action has been done (e.g. deactivate them by clicking on the entry).
Indicator-icon should change when there is a notification or should disappear when there is none.
And surely the importance of this issue/bug should be "high".

Please assign somebody to this bug and change the importance to "high". It is still a problem, also on Ubuntu 12.04.

Sayang, still low importance and no activity!

Dear Matthew Paul Thomas!
Thanks for the attention to the bug and assigning somebody to it, but I guess you you mis-clicked as you chose me. I would love to help with this bug, but unfortunately I lack the knowledge and skills for this. I am more than happy to help with testing and further feedback, but more would be out of my sphere. So please assign somebody that is capable to help with this bug and change the importance to "high".
Cheers, tellapu

tellapu, you are welcome to find someone who can fix this bug. But if you can't, then don't be surprised that nobody else has either. A bug comment is rarely a good place to appeal for the bug to be fixed, because the only people who will see your comment are people who have already considered whether they can fix it.

Hi Matthew! Thanks a lot for the post and explanation. Hmm, where do we find people that could fix this? Or where should I appeal for the bug to be fixed? I thought developers of Ubuntu and evolution would be informed by and/or would check the bug reports ...

No progress for almost two years? Ubuntu should be better than this.

What can we do to help debug this, and test solutions? Without persistence, alarms are completely useless.

Bug from 2011. Version not longer supportet.
Change status to Invalid

*Of course* this version is no longer supported. But what about the actual (mis-)feature?
Is it actually *fixed* in a newer version?

Letting this *essential feature of ANY electronic calendar* hanging for years and then closing
as "Invalid" without any further information feels a bit... whatever.

(Jörg Frings-Fürst, please don't close a bug as "no longer supportet" if it is reported as occurring in 12.04. Thanks.)

An idea for this would be to modify evolution-indicator to make it add a nodification
for alarms and not just emails. I'll try to findout if the alarms are accessible in evolution API's or what
would be the way to "clear" the notifications in the indicator.

After checking deeper into it, it's more complex than I tought. There is no "alarm notification" either
from dbus or the evolution api. So the only possible thing that could be done without re-inventing
everything is to patch the evolution-alarm-notify daemon to make it add an item to the indicator.

Patrick, the problem in this bug report is not that Evolution isn't using notifications. The problem is that it is using notifications when it shouldn't, because they are not persistent.

I think indicator-messages devs are already working on that bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-clock-app/+bug/1233176

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