https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481024
Bug ID: 481024
Summary: The loss of user-defined snoozing for calendar and
todo reminders is a massive functional regression and
actually a hard show-stopper for my kontact usage
Classification: Applications
Product: kontact
Version: 5.22.3
Platform: openSUSE
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: grave
Priority: NOR
Component: calendar
Assignee: kdepim-b...@kde.org
Reporter: flossy-...@online.de
Target Milestone: ---
FOR CONTEXT
I'm using the KDE PIM tools since well over two decades when there was no
integration into kontact.
Thus, when I write "hard show-stopper" this is no lighthearted whim. The
functional regression is so
disruptive to decade-old workflows that I definitely – to my utmost regret –
will have to switch to
Thunderbird (providing sufficient snoozing and other functionality) within a
short time-frame, when neither
solution or work-around is available. Because of the effort involved, this
migration will be permanent.
SUMMARY
With the upgrade from openSuSE 15.4 to 15.5 and thus to the mentioned SW
versions reminders
for calendar events or tasks are only notified via KDE notifications, with
fixed snooze options of 5 minutes
and 1 hour. This is a catastrophic regression – consider work-flows like the
following:
Sample workflow:
Every year in mid October a reminder to empty the rain barrels is needed to
prevent damage by freezing.
When the reminder comes up, long-term weather forecast are checked and the
reminder postponed accordingly
(last year in several steps until December – making good use of the water …)
It is no option to change the reminder timing in the issue itself, because the
timing should be preserved for the next year.
The delays only apply to the current reminder …
I have many analogous workflow in the areas of taxes, technical inspections,
medical examinations, vaccinations, …
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Create a calendar event with reminder in the very near future.
2. Watch the notification.
OBSERVED RESULT
KDE notification popup with only 2 fixed delays (5 min, 1 hour).
EXPECTED RESULT
An option to configure a user-choosen delay.
POSSIBLE DUPLICATES
I judge the following Bug-IDs (in part older than one year!) addressing the
same problem – but neither do I see solutions, workarounds nor progress:
457046
452264
453298
453299
457046
461233
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
[copied from System Information]
Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.5
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 5.14.21-150500.55.44-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-10210U CPU @ 1.60GHz
Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I'm a computer engineer and willing and capable of contributing to a solution
if brought up to speed by some guidance.
(e.g. around 2003 I contributed to the PDA integration and syncing …)
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