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

[Sheila Mooney]

On Dec 28, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Jared Rhine wrote:

> 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, I believe Mimi wanted this behavior but it was going to be  
difficult to implement do we had to punt on it. I may be confusing  
this with the issue of having alarm's popup when you are not running  
Chandler.
>
> -- Jared
>
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