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

[Jared Rhine]

Jared 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.

Katie wrote:
 > I would not assume that the subscriptions were shared with "share
 > alarms" -- it is possible that you are just encountering a bug. It is
 > worth tracking this down to be sure.

Sheila Mooney wrote:
> Katie is probably right. By default alarms are not shared (you need to 
> select that explicitly). I don't know many people that do share alarms 
> so there is likely a bug somewhere.

I continued to investigate, but I haven't found any bugs.  I think 
Chandler is working as designed.

I'm not getting reminders from all subscribed calendars, just those with 
alarms shared, which turns out to just be one calendar (from a busy 
hub-style dogfooder).

I talked to this shared-alarm sharee and they said they need to keep it 
that way.  They also use iCal, synced to Cosmo.  By sharing alarms, iCal 
is able to sync those, and from there they get synced to their mobile 
device, where the alarms are used.  The sharer also mentioned that iCal 
supports disabling alarms for particular subscribed calendars.

So I think I'm back to the situation described in the original posting: 
that 1) I probably need to unsubscribe to this calendar to avoid the 
alarms, and 2) given the expected use cases, providing a user override 
for this case is unlikely for Preview.

The original post, with some minor other questions and guesses, is 
available here:

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-December/006011.html

There's no questions or actions from this email here; just closing the 
"worth tracking down" loop.  Thanks.

-- Jared