Re: [Usability] improving alarm productivity

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:46 -0600, Matthew Nuzum wrote:

> For a while now I've been using Evolution as my PIM and I've noticed a
> distinction between its alarms and Outlook's reminders. It seems there
> is no concept of dismissing alarms. You can snooze them, but as the
> bug above explains, if you reboot your computer, the alarms never come
> back. You can close the alarm dialog, which in a sense,
> single-handedly dismisses all of the alarms. However you don't exactly
> get to operate on individual alarms.

When the Evo guys were redesigning this dialog a year or two back, I
pointed them at OSX's iCal reminder dialog as an example of a compact
design that let you do everything you're asking for here... I guess they
didn't learn much from it, though :/

Cheeri,
Calum.

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