Can Evolution calendar reminders pop-up automatically?
I've been posting to the Evolution mailing list about a problem I am having with Evolution's calendar reminders not automatically popping up on my screen. They suggested that the behavior I am looking for happens in other distributions, so perhaps my problem is specific to Ubuntu. So I am posting here to see if that is the case. I use Ubuntu 8.04.1. Evolution is fully up to date via Update Manager. In summary, here is what Evolution currently does with calendar reminders on my system: I see the notification icon appear in the notification area. If I left-click this icon, ONLY THEN does a window pop up on the screen with a reminder. If I happen to right-click the notification icon on accident, it dismisses the reminder! I would like to bypass the left-clicking of the notification icon and just have a pop-up window AUTOMATICALLY appear on my screen with my reminder. Have Ubuntu developers modified this behavior as someone on the Evolution mailing list suggested? Can someone help me get Evolution to behave in the manner I am looking for? Your assistance is greatly appreciated. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Can Evolution calendar reminders pop-up automatically?
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 09:39 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 05:57 -0700, Tim Zakharov wrote: > > Have Ubuntu developers modified this behavior as someone on the > > Evolution mailing list suggested? Can someone help me get Evolution > > to behave in the manner I am looking for? > > I think the behavior you're seeing is the default behavior for > Evolution. > > If you want a direct popup, I think you need to install separate > packages for that on Ubuntu. Maybe those other distros install those > packages by default. > > Try using Synaptic to add the "mail-notification" and > "mail-notification-evolution" packages. Note that these are part of the > Universe repository so if you haven't enabled that, you'll need to do > so. > > If you have problems let us know. Hi, Thanks for the reply. I already have both of those installed and configured. I'm not sure, but I believe those packages only detail with email, not calendar events. I believe the notification icon that appears when I have a calendar event pending is part of evolution-alarm-notify, which I do have enabled in my Sessions. Is evolution-alarm-notify specific to Ubuntu? Perhaps that is where the issue lies. Thanks again for your help. I would love to get this resolved, as I love how well Evolution integrates into the Gnome desktop. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Can Evolution calendar reminders pop-up automatically?
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 09:39 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 05:57 -0700, Tim Zakharov wrote: > > Have Ubuntu developers modified this behavior as someone on the > > Evolution mailing list suggested? Can someone help me get Evolution > > to behave in the manner I am looking for? > > I think the behavior you're seeing is the default behavior for > Evolution. > > If you want a direct popup, I think you need to install separate > packages for that on Ubuntu. Maybe those other distros install those > packages by default. > > Try using Synaptic to add the "mail-notification" and > "mail-notification-evolution" packages. Note that these are part of the > Universe repository so if you haven't enabled that, you'll need to do > so. > > If you have problems let us know. > Hi, Here is some new information on this problem. Read this Ubuntu Forums post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=874333 In particular, read this thread the OP from above refers to: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=444342 Could this issue be due to a setting in gconf? Is that a default Gnome setting, or do Ubuntu devs customize this? Could this be why the problem is present in Ubuntu but not in OpenSUSE? See this thread: http://www.nabble.com/Can-calendar-reminders-be-made-persistent--td18317635.html -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Properly identifying applications
I like the idea of App name - function, or Function - app name. Either
way. There are enough hard-to-pronounce app names in the Linux world
that it should be required to list the app function along with the app
name. Even listening to Linux podcasts, there is never any consensus on
how to pronounce various apps, DE's, distros, etc. I also agree about
Evince being mis-labeled as a "document" viewer when in reality it is a
PDF file viewer.
Back to the original poster's comments, I would like Totem Movie Player
to be called just that, rather than Movie Player. Why? Totem has a
Youtube plugin that I often use rather than navigating to youtube.com.
I know Totem does this, but it doesn't say Totem in the menu entry. I
often get Movie Player mixed up with Mplayer, so usually on my
installs, I manually rename Movie Player to Totem Movie Player.
Patrick Goetz wrote:
It looks like no one responded to the concern raised below. It makes
sense to me that all applications should be identified by their name as
well as their function in gnome GUI menus. Furthermore, not doing so
frequently increases confusion for naive users. For example, due to
ongoing bugs with the linux acrobat reader postscript rendering engine,
users frequently come to our office because they couldn't print a pdf
file. We tell them to use evince instead of acrobat reader. They look
for a program called evince in the menus, and can't find anything. No
one knows to look for "Document Viewer" -- in fact, what does this even
mean? What kind of documents? In 9.04 Document Viewer appears to have
disappeared from the menu, but "Image Viewer" is still there. The
default image viewer used to be Eye of Gnome, but this appears to be
something different -- since the menu is non-standard, one can't tell
from the application itself; the only way to find out is to dig through
/usr/share/applications.
When the command line is more user friendly than the GUI, this should
set off those little alarm bells that something needs to be done
differently.
Of course the complication in the linux world is the plethora of choices
which exist for each application type, especially on larger networks
like ours where users are strongly opinionated about which {editor,
compiler, pdf viewer, image viewer, browser, etc.} is the best one and
must be installed. How to create a manageable user experience for the
less knowledgeable user in the presence of dozens of choices for each
task? I'm not sure what the answer is at the moment, but a no-brainer
choice is to clearly identify WHAT application is being invoked from the
menu.
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 13:41:43 +0100
From: Peter Berry
Subject: Using functional descriptions for default applications' menu
entries
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Bug 105685 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/105685)
was recently rejected again, on the grounds that "it's not a bug",
despite apparent consensus (from my and another's admittedly biased
perspective) that it is. See previous thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel.discuss/1101
I have four media players installed: MPlayer, Xine, Totem and VLC. I
find all of them wanting from time to time and if one doesn't work,
it's useful to be able to try another. So on my system clearly "Movie
Player" is ambiguous and makes it more difficult to find Totem. (It's
also an Americanism and imprecise since it also plays pure audio - IMO
"video player" or "media player" would be better.) I also find it
galling that GNOME devs apparently think it is OK to say Movie Player
= Totem, as if nothing else in the world deserved the name.
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Re: shameful censoring of mono opposition
Mark Fink wrote: > it would be better if it was removed from the repos too, but ubuntu > > would get back some of its respect if it at least removed MONO from > the default install like Fedora is doing. I just listened to the FLOSS Weekly podcast from May where they interviewed a Fedora developer and he stated Tomboy is installed by default. He argued for the inclusion of MONO into Fedora. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: F-Spot Import Was: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 11:49 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/6/20 Vincenzo Ciancia : > > I have nothing against mono myself but in my opinion rhythmbox and gthumb > > cover the basic needs one may have. I sometimes wanted to use f-spot but the > > fact that it copies all the pics in its own folder gives an "alien" and > > feeling to it, in the sense that it seems to me the program is doing > > something I didn't ask for (pictures take lot of space). > > > > In F-spot the import dialog has a check box "Copy files to the Photos > folder" which you can turn off to prevent that behaviour. > > http://popey.com/~alan/Screenshot-Import.png > > Cheers, > Al. > Al, Do you happen to know if there is a way to make this the default behavior? In other words, "Copy files to the Photos folder" seems to be automatically checked, and I need to remember each time to uncheck it. Is there a way to set it to be unchecked by default? Sorry for straying a bit off topic, but it's been on my mind awhile and your post prompted a query from me. :-) Tim -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:16 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > f-spot but the fact that it copies all the pics in its own folder gives > >an "alien" and feeling to it, in the sense that it seems to me the > > program is doing something I didn't ask for (pictures take lot of space). > > Seeing as that's optional, yes you did. I find the copying useful since > well...if it didn't copy them, it'd be like GThumb, pretending to organize my > camera (not actually changing the filesystem by the way, just pretending) and > not getting the images onto the computer. You'd have to manually copy all > the > images from the camera to the hard drive, then run GThumb/F-Spot. In that > case, why are they set to start when a camera is plugged in or an SD card > inserted? They'd be rather useless for the "getting stuff of the camera" > usecase (the usecase implied by their autolaunching). > In my case, I keep all photos on a large external drive to conserve space in my home directory, and import only the thumbnails into f-spot, so I must remember to uncheck this box each time, or it copies over the full jpgs to home/tim/Photos. This would quickly wipe out my free space, and needlessly make a duplicate of each photo (I already keep backups on another system). So in my case, as with Vincenzo, it is a feature I don't like. Tim -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
