[Design] [D/F] Other's alarms

[Jared Rhine]

I subscribe to a couple of other people's office calendars.  As a 
result, I get lots of alarm pop-ups.  A pretty small percentage are 
mine, so they are starting to feel like a nuisance.

It's fair to assume that these subscriptions were shared with "share 
alarms" checked.  During my last restore, I avoided any "share alarms" 
widgets during the initial subscription process, but the sharer settings 
are what matter, correct?

The collections don't represent group projects with the sharer; they are 
"work calendars" used primarily for scheduling with coworkers.  I'm 
musing whether this issue would still be an issue if I was using future 
scheduling features, or freebusy (which probably doesn't have alarms, 
right?).

But there's also an aspect of tracking some projects/collections in a 
light, read-only sort of way.  I believe this mode is likely to be used 
across user profiles and phases; it's not hard to imagine hubs, casual 
collaborators, individual contributors, and others having a few 
collections subscribed in this fashion.  Does it seem like "other's 
people's alarms" will be seen by many adopters?

Ultimately, I'd love to be able to just not get pop-up alarms for 
subscribed collections when I indicate that preference.  Probably not 
feasible in Preview?

Side question: All alarm notifications also leave Chandler as the 
foreground app after I interact with the notification dialog.  I was 
hoping that a dismissed alarm dialog would leave me in the app I was 
working in.  I was hoping to check if this was a known issue or 
by-design before filing the ticket; thoughts?

-- Jared